Me neither. Even the crusty-looking desktops of old UNIX workstations, such as 4DWM or CDE, begin to look professional and attractive when compared to Win10 and Yosemite.
This is true. The Microsoft deal was an emergency move when Nokia was already in deep troubles. Their biggest problem was that they really insisted to stick too long with the crusty Symbian stuff, an operating system which offered a laggy user experience, crashed all the time, and was pain for developers. It was just too easy for the competitors to stomp over them.
I invented the word "reborn" there, not Slashdot editor. What comes to new Nokia, the networking business is doing OK and is feasible. Sure, it's quite different to the magnitude of the phone business, but the company is not just a dead stub which pretends to exist. And, if you take a look at the history of the company, Nokia has done very different things over the years and shapeshifted multiple times.
I still don't understand why we would even need fast chips and premium OpenGL drivers just to run the desktop acceptably. Compositing some simple application bitmaps shouldn't require everything tuned up to the maximum. Windows is super smooth even on GMA950 and there's plenty of eye candy.
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Yes, there was no end to the whine, there where bugs, badly designed UI, etc.
Well, to recap, the basic arguments against GNOME2 were that it significantly reduced configurability over GNOME1, that it was bloated, and that the "Applications / Places / System" menu structure felt uncomfortable. I guess one could relatively easily dig up the large Slashdot discussions where all the complaining takes place.
I hardly would call Unity "optimized". The animations are laggy as hell and it takes ages for Dash to pop up. And this comes from a guy who otherwise actually likes the user experience and graphics of Unity.
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Actually there was no end to the whine about GNOME2 which Ubuntu 10.04 was based on.
I don't think it was never proven that they specifically log keystrokes. For the W10TP they only wrote an EULA that says "all your data belongs to us".
Well, that can mean anything, but in practice, I suspect they will probably just log things like hardware profiles, performance values, app usage statistics, crash logs, things like that.
I hope they have defined properly what they mean with "trolling". By definition, trolling means writing inflammatory comments that excite people to write indignant responses. Thus, for example, bullying or threats do not technically count as trolling.
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please fucking stop with Bennett haselton blabber. why is this one person's opinion treated like scripture by dicedot?
I don't think Bennett is in any special position. His texts are published because he writes them. You can do that too.
And yet - services like WhatsApp, HBO, Netflix, Dropbox, Evernote, Github, Skype, Rdio, and other services manage to survive without selling ads.
Also Reddit.
How about Roland Piquepaille?
Well, OS X gives you a UNIX of which desktop has much better QA than the Linux alternatives.
Torvalds uses it occasionally.
Is it open source yet? There's no real point in using it if you can't even trust it does what they say it does...
I can trust a company even if a program is not open source.
Guys, this is a perfect opportunity to use the Windows Feedback tool.
Me neither. Even the crusty-looking desktops of old UNIX workstations, such as 4DWM or CDE, begin to look professional and attractive when compared to Win10 and Yosemite.
You can use GMail with IMAP too.
Isn't it more important to do cool and interesting things with a computer rather than everything obsessedly being open source?
This is true. The Microsoft deal was an emergency move when Nokia was already in deep troubles. Their biggest problem was that they really insisted to stick too long with the crusty Symbian stuff, an operating system which offered a laggy user experience, crashed all the time, and was pain for developers. It was just too easy for the competitors to stomp over them.
I invented the word "reborn" there, not Slashdot editor. What comes to new Nokia, the networking business is doing OK and is feasible. Sure, it's quite different to the magnitude of the phone business, but the company is not just a dead stub which pretends to exist. And, if you take a look at the history of the company, Nokia has done very different things over the years and shapeshifted multiple times.
And stop shiny monitors as well. Literally the worst thing to happen to screens.
The low-frequency 200Hz backlight is the worst thing that has happened to screens. The glossy finish is a nice runner-up though.
Unity did not arrive until 11.04 and I would say that the mass movement to Mint did not happen before 12.04.
I still don't understand why we would even need fast chips and premium OpenGL drivers just to run the desktop acceptably. Compositing some simple application bitmaps shouldn't require everything tuned up to the maximum. Windows is super smooth even on GMA950 and there's plenty of eye candy.
Yes, there was no end to the whine, there where bugs, badly designed UI, etc.
Well, to recap, the basic arguments against GNOME2 were that it significantly reduced configurability over GNOME1, that it was bloated, and that the "Applications / Places / System" menu structure felt uncomfortable. I guess one could relatively easily dig up the large Slashdot discussions where all the complaining takes place.
I hardly would call Unity "optimized". The animations are laggy as hell and it takes ages for Dash to pop up. And this comes from a guy who otherwise actually likes the user experience and graphics of Unity.
Actually there was no end to the whine about GNOME2 which Ubuntu 10.04 was based on.
Now available with the new RandomFunctionEx32! It is random 7.9999 times in 8!
Ah, you mean the DWORD WINAPI RandomFunctionEx32( LPVOID lpParam ).
Also, Windows works on all PCs with all hardware supported.
microsoft decided to log all your key strokes.
I don't think it was never proven that they specifically log keystrokes. For the W10TP they only wrote an EULA that says "all your data belongs to us".
Well, that can mean anything, but in practice, I suspect they will probably just log things like hardware profiles, performance values, app usage statistics, crash logs, things like that.
I hope they have defined properly what they mean with "trolling". By definition, trolling means writing inflammatory comments that excite people to write indignant responses. Thus, for example, bullying or threats do not technically count as trolling.
Suits me perfectly, as I wasn't trolling. Unity is the only one that offers a nice amount of eye candy and hasn't gone with a simplified flat look.
Whatever. Ubuntu Unity seems to be the only cool-looking UI left.
I would say that it's the opposite: B.Sc. is the new high school diploma. Highly recommended.