Small graphical glitches everywhere, crashes, buttons not working at all, unimplemented features, slow performance. Laptop brightness adjustment goes in multiple steps in Mint and Ubuntu.
How about leaving Windows 8.1 on it? The device you have is the very device 8.1 was designed around. Linux will be clunky compared to it.
To me it seems that the trend of forcibly replacing every Windows device with Linux is still alive, even though Linux does not offer big benefits anymore.
It did offer big benefits in the past: UNIX workstations were expensive, and Microsoft software worked like garbage (slow, unsecure, crashy). This was from late 90s to early 00s. The situation looks very different today.
I just don't see the point in replacing my OS with something that is technically inferior. The Linux desktop is super glitchy, power management is worse, suspend / hibernation can be flaky, and there might be an odd hardware device that does not work to its full extent.
Linux's largest remaining advantage is that it is a fully open environment.
Then "apt-get update && apt-get install xubuntu" or "apt-get update && apt-get install kubuntu"
If I remember correctly the metapackage names are xubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop.
XFCE is kind of problematic as the development is slow. The last stable version is almost 3 years old, although it generally works just fine. You may want to turn off the integrated compositor (as it causes tearing) and replace it with Compton.
1) The user experience is consistent and comfortable, and very close to a classic Windows or Mac desktop.
2) It is the last desktop which still has a cool appearance instead of a bland and flattened look.
3) Unity uses a lot of hardware resources, and things quickly become choppy on low-end hardware.
Remember that the software repositories of a Linux distro are a walled garden too. Installing third-party software is possible, but often requires some trickery and hardly ever is as simple as double-clicking a SETUP.EXE.
There's a program called ExpanDrive which abstracts a bunch of network file systems for Windows. I've been using it for SSHFS, but there is also WebDAV support among others.
I'm afraid 100 years is rather short time for languages to develop. Let's compare 100 years backwards to today. Was the combo platter that much different in 1915?
Typical home loudspeakers have sensitivities of about 90 dB for 1 W at 1 m, but as you play louder the noise floor from distortion rises and therefore masks very low level sounds.
A lot of middle-class homes used to have a piano for that purpose, no lie. Once upon a time, music sales didn't mean recordings--it meant sheet music, so people could play the songs at home.
These days, even if people had the piano, they'd lack the attention span to learn to play it...
This is probably the main problem. For both home users and businesses, open source is often just a way to get free (in beer) software components. The work isn't funded properly and there is not enough resources to do proper QA.
When the Heartbleed vulnerability was found, there was spotted another OpenSSL security vulnerability which had not been fixed for 4 years and it even had a public CVE record in place.
Compare that with FOSS bug trackers, and it is night and day.
But it isn't much different with FOSS. Often the bug can just sit there without anyone responding to it. Or maybe someone asks for more details, but after I provide them, it's just crickets.
The quality of open source software is kind of crusty these days. No matter how open it is, making stuff work properly should be priority number one.
For example, try to adjust the display brightness of a laptop under Mint or Ubuntu. It goes in multiple steps because there is multiple listeners for the adjustment event. Even basic stuff like this does not work properly.
I think the actual problem is that some people are so worked up about political incorrectness that they take pleasure from it spewing insulting angry messages all day long. Lol, look at my freedomz of speechorz. But a clever guy can say things straight, without being a upsetting dickhead at the same time.
I'm with you. I do see some ridiculous situations regarding to copyrights, but in general I don't see how shortening copyright times is a terribly important battle to fight. For example things like patent hoarding cause much more problems.
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Small graphical glitches everywhere, crashes, buttons not working at all, unimplemented features, slow performance. Laptop brightness adjustment goes in multiple steps in Mint and Ubuntu.
How about leaving Windows 8.1 on it? The device you have is the very device 8.1 was designed around. Linux will be clunky compared to it.
To me it seems that the trend of forcibly replacing every Windows device with Linux is still alive, even though Linux does not offer big benefits anymore.
It did offer big benefits in the past: UNIX workstations were expensive, and Microsoft software worked like garbage (slow, unsecure, crashy). This was from late 90s to early 00s. The situation looks very different today.
I just don't see the point in replacing my OS with something that is technically inferior. The Linux desktop is super glitchy, power management is worse, suspend / hibernation can be flaky, and there might be an odd hardware device that does not work to its full extent.
Linux's largest remaining advantage is that it is a fully open environment.
Then "apt-get update && apt-get install xubuntu" or "apt-get update && apt-get install kubuntu"
If I remember correctly the metapackage names are xubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop.
XFCE is kind of problematic as the development is slow. The last stable version is almost 3 years old, although it generally works just fine. You may want to turn off the integrated compositor (as it causes tearing) and replace it with Compton.
From a guy that actually has used Unity.
1) The user experience is consistent and comfortable, and very close to a classic Windows or Mac desktop.
2) It is the last desktop which still has a cool appearance instead of a bland and flattened look.
3) Unity uses a lot of hardware resources, and things quickly become choppy on low-end hardware.
My experience is that games for Linux run surprisingly well, but the Linux desktop has become complete garbage.
Remember that the software repositories of a Linux distro are a walled garden too. Installing third-party software is possible, but often requires some trickery and hardly ever is as simple as double-clicking a SETUP.EXE.
There's a program called ExpanDrive which abstracts a bunch of network file systems for Windows. I've been using it for SSHFS, but there is also WebDAV support among others.
Who does all this hard work? Didn't AMD just fire a bunch of Linux developers?
Either way, at this point both the FGLRX and RADEON driver seem to be almost as good choice as Intel HD Graphics for Linux use. Good job.
I'm afraid 100 years is rather short time for languages to develop. Let's compare 100 years backwards to today. Was the combo platter that much different in 1915?
By then English shall have fragmented into a bunch of different dialects, quite distinguishable from each other.
I predict the opposite: because of globalization, there will mostly be only one way to pronounce English, with accents having become a rarity.
What range DO speakers have?
Typical home loudspeakers have sensitivities of about 90 dB for 1 W at 1 m, but as you play louder the noise floor from distortion rises and therefore masks very low level sounds.
I found a chart from the Wikipedia Vinyl revival article. Interestingly, it seems that the demand is skyrocketing.
A lot of middle-class homes used to have a piano for that purpose, no lie. Once upon a time, music sales didn't mean recordings--it meant sheet music, so people could play the songs at home.
These days, even if people had the piano, they'd lack the attention span to learn to play it...
I don't think anyone in the industry who is both sane and honest ever pretended that FOSS was bug-free.
Why not? We should precisely strive for FOSS being the golden standard for bug-free software. The OpenBSD team is doing pretty good work in this area.
This is probably the main problem. For both home users and businesses, open source is often just a way to get free (in beer) software components. The work isn't funded properly and there is not enough resources to do proper QA.
When the Heartbleed vulnerability was found, there was spotted another OpenSSL security vulnerability which had not been fixed for 4 years and it even had a public CVE record in place.
I don't know anyone that ever thought "Open source" was bug free.
At least back in the day one of the main motivations to move to open source was that it provided a less buggy experience than the proprietary option.
Compare that with FOSS bug trackers, and it is night and day.
But it isn't much different with FOSS. Often the bug can just sit there without anyone responding to it. Or maybe someone asks for more details, but after I provide them, it's just crickets.
The quality of open source software is kind of crusty these days. No matter how open it is, making stuff work properly should be priority number one.
For example, try to adjust the display brightness of a laptop under Mint or Ubuntu. It goes in multiple steps because there is multiple listeners for the adjustment event. Even basic stuff like this does not work properly.
Yeah, but if an animal enjoys a few low-alcohol fermented fruits in a year, it's quite different to drinking copious amounts of booze every weekend.
I think the actual problem is that some people are so worked up about political incorrectness that they take pleasure from it spewing insulting angry messages all day long. Lol, look at my freedomz of speechorz. But a clever guy can say things straight, without being a upsetting dickhead at the same time.
Sounds fair to me.
Well, at least the Ku Klux Klan Supermarket can easily be found.
I'm with you. I do see some ridiculous situations regarding to copyrights, but in general I don't see how shortening copyright times is a terribly important battle to fight. For example things like patent hoarding cause much more problems.
More slack rights to write something that resembles something else. Only punish if the work is unquestionably a deliberate ripoff.