Too bad that "Custom ROMs" ability is going the way of Cyanogenmod...
Too bad you are wrong. It has already been forked and will be known as Lineage OS. The failure of Cyanogen as a company (thanks in part to Microsoft's reverse-Midas touch?) does not mean the end of CyanogenMod or the incredibly vibrant Android development community.
It's easy to buy a new Android phone that doesn't explode.
You can't buy a new iOS phone that has a headphone jack.
Multiple vendors really helps the Android user to get what they want. If the iPhone doesn't give you what you want, you're stuck.
I've never owned an Apple product, but every day at work I see multiple iphones with cracked screens, I hear people moaning about how expensive replacements are, how bad the last forced update hosed their phones. My Android phone is 2.5 years old because it still works fine. I may upgrade soon just because I am sometimes entranced by new, shiny things, not because I feel a real need to. There are at least eight phones I can think of right off hand that I will consider buying, none of which are Samsungs or Apples.
it's not loyalty to android that keeps them from going to apple. it's apple that keeps them from going to apple
Close, but still wrong. I know I am not alone in saying that I use Android because it works, it does what I want it to do, and the Android devices I've owned have offered tremendous overall value. I have not interest in iOS, nor hate for Apple - the company and their over-priced hardware are irrelevant to me. I feel no loyalty to Google or Android, or any particular manufacturer, though Android phones, tablets, and media boxes have been good for me.
Most Android users are not Note 7 users, or Note x users, or even Samsung users, so this seems obvious. Should a Ford F-250 having electrical issues convince me to buy a Hyundai sedan, or dissuade me from buying a Chevy crossover SUV?
Android users are Android users because Android works for them, and/or they have no interest in iOS or Apple products. When did the iphone v. Samsung (if not just the Note) become the only smartphone story in the media, anyway? I still like my old LG G3 because it works, and will probably buy a ZTE Axon 7 soon. There are plenty of good non-Samsung options that are also not iphones.
I thought half the point of a Chromebook was that it was supposed to be cheaper than a standard laptop? I'd say the sweet spot is around $800or so now, but you can pick from a number of pretty decent laptops for around $500.
2) Get Windows to tell you your product key and reinstall Windows (after all, since it came with the computer, you paid for it). I doubt M$ will bake in "Net Nanny", even with the religious right fundies getting their undies in a knot.
Or just enter the password to turn it off? I think this is targeted at kids, not something that adult computer users wouldn't be allowed to disable. Even on Windows, very little software exists that can't be removed.
1. Anti-pornography feminism is a thing. Has been for decades.
Yes, it is a thing - a tiny one that no one really takes seriously because it has no chance of gaining any real traction, so everyone just accepts it and ignores it.
2. It's not quite as bad, but last year multiple high profile self-identified feminist-progressives signed a petition opposing Amesty International... because Amnesty International is against locking up prostitutes.
Yep, and you know your cause has no future when even Amnesty International thinks it is too idealistic to be practical.
So what. Do you really think Apple cares about a measly $2 million fine? That's not even a slap on the wrist to them. They may be more careful about compliance since the next fine would be bigger, but they could simply shrug this off as part of the cost of doing business - a very minor part.
When AT&T and Verizon agree on something we need to question their motives.
Hint: When a fox applies for a job at your chicken farm he probably isn't just after the health/dental/vision insurance and 401k you offer, even though he'll claim he just loves watching out for the chickens.
And unfortunately, it won't be long until the feds start using nothing but foxes to oversee all of our chicken farms. Bye bye, consumer protections. We hardly knew ye.
When AT&T and Verizon agree on something we need to question their motives.
Hint: When a fox applies for a job at your chicken farm he probably isn't just after the health/dental/vision insurance and 401k you offer, even though he'll claim he just loves watching out for the chickens.
If you don't like Wikipedia or how it raises money, you don't have to use it. How some people are so critical of a free service that no one is forced to use or pay for seems odd when you think about it. Come up with something better.
distros that use systemd aren't linux any more than android is linux.
Haters who spew the same crap anonymously in every thread don't have opinions worth considering any more so than do 5 year-olds.
And even if your point were correct it would not matter - many of the distros that utilize systemd are excellent (even if you consider systemd to be a flaw).
Careful not to feed the troll. Apparently the same anonymous coward is whining all over this thread about the same minor/questionable bug because he is a Mint hater. I'm unaware of an OS that hasn't had exploitable bugs at times, and I'm not the least bit concerned about the new Mint release. And I don't intentionally conceal my identity when I post about it.
Thank you. I know of PricewaterhouseCoopers and figured this wasn't about jetskis, but I was unaware of what PwC meant and the summary never actually spelled out the company's name. I don't trade companies like this (their symbol is PwC) and their logo is stylized as pwc, not PwC.
Who gives a shit? That's not actually what the spacebar is supposed to do in the first place. Besides, we already have the page down key.
I'm much more concerned about organizations I trusted for news (like Slashdot) report on stories like this as if they are important or matter. No, the space bar doesn't always function as it used to on web pages, and the author's 1954 Studebaker Conestoga doesn't like today's unleaded ethanol gasoline blends, either, but neither of those are major problems.
Hitting "return" also doesn't bring you back to the left side of your sheet of paper and to the next line with the "ding" of a bell anymore, either, and rotary-dial phones are becoming increasingly rare. Just do like everyone else and press the buttons on your new-fangled wireless mobile phone gizmo and hit the damn "page down" key or scroll on your mouse or touchpad when you want to move down a web page. The web isn't all plain html these days, if you hadn't noticed, and a lot of page views are on devices that don't even have a physical space bar.
Except for the unpatched kernel vulnerabilities because they keep using an out of track non-LTS kernel. Maybe that's changed since the last big kernel exploit that went unpatched for 18months on Mint but the project has an atrocious record on security and no matter how much you like it you shouldn't ignore the warts it's got.
I'll take the warts and security vulnerabilities that Mint has versus all of the problems Windows has, especially for a desktop system. Of course I wouldn't run Mint on mission-critical enterprise servers, but that isn't the target market, and no one with major infrastructural concerns needs the simplicity of Mint, either. It isn't perfect, but Mint is a viable alternative to M$ for the average (or slightly above) home user.
Can I play ALL my games, perfectly and without issues, at the same or better framerate?
Nope, and I can't play most of my games on Windows at all, since half of them are only released for dedicated consoles, you silly person!
I've certainly loved some PC-only games over the years, but at this point in my life, spending $2000 every 2-3 years so I can play a handful of worthwhile PC-only games seems like a mistake. When I can buy a $300 console that plays way more good games, and quite a few that have no Windows versions, I can't justify being into PC gaming anymore. I used to be a PC game snob too, but I think I'm done with shelling out the dough for 120 FPS and using a keyboard for games.
Right, having no control over updates or what your OS is doing behind your back sure makes Windows great. I don't know what you're trying to do, but just about everything I can do in Windows works great in Mint, too. Or were your comments made in jest?
Gaming is the one exception, though Linux has caught up a tiny bit. PC games are still superior to consoles, but the fact that so many titles are console-only, as well as the overall simplicity factor, makes choosing an Xbox One or PS4 over an expensive PC an easy choice for most people.
Every other day, there seems to be a new "operating system" released, always in "beta" (and never leaving that stage)... but it's just a Linux distribution! It's just a bunch of standard junkware slapped together! I don't understand this obsession with making new Linux distros when there already are a billion of them.
If you want to sound crotchety and whiny, that's up to you. But you are completely wrong here, since Mint has been around for about ten years and is an excellent operating system with a great team and professional lead developer, not "junkware slapped together." I don't agree with one of the bigoted political stances Mint head Clem has taken in the past but I've been running it for 9 years and fully understand why it is one of the most popular and respected distros (and he's kept quiet about his hate for Israel in recent years). You can be lazy and let MS run your computer and data if you like, but that doesn't mean there aren't 10-20 really good Linux distros out there completely ready for prime time, beta or otherwise.
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My nearly 3 year old Galaxy S5 got yet another update yesterday.
Bah, must be fake malware, since only Apple gives updates past a year. Praise Jobs!
Too bad that "Custom ROMs" ability is going the way of Cyanogenmod...
Too bad you are wrong. It has already been forked and will be known as Lineage OS. The failure of Cyanogen as a company (thanks in part to Microsoft's reverse-Midas touch?) does not mean the end of CyanogenMod or the incredibly vibrant Android development community.
It's easy to buy a new Android phone that doesn't explode.
You can't buy a new iOS phone that has a headphone jack.
Multiple vendors really helps the Android user to get what they want. If the iPhone doesn't give you what you want, you're stuck.
I've never owned an Apple product, but every day at work I see multiple iphones with cracked screens, I hear people moaning about how expensive replacements are, how bad the last forced update hosed their phones. My Android phone is 2.5 years old because it still works fine. I may upgrade soon just because I am sometimes entranced by new, shiny things, not because I feel a real need to. There are at least eight phones I can think of right off hand that I will consider buying, none of which are Samsungs or Apples.
it's not loyalty to android that keeps them from going to apple. it's apple that keeps them from going to apple
Close, but still wrong. I know I am not alone in saying that I use Android because it works, it does what I want it to do, and the Android devices I've owned have offered tremendous overall value. I have not interest in iOS, nor hate for Apple - the company and their over-priced hardware are irrelevant to me. I feel no loyalty to Google or Android, or any particular manufacturer, though Android phones, tablets, and media boxes have been good for me.
Most Android users are not Note 7 users, or Note x users, or even Samsung users, so this seems obvious. Should a Ford F-250 having electrical issues convince me to buy a Hyundai sedan, or dissuade me from buying a Chevy crossover SUV?
Android users are Android users because Android works for them, and/or they have no interest in iOS or Apple products. When did the iphone v. Samsung (if not just the Note) become the only smartphone story in the media, anyway? I still like my old LG G3 because it works, and will probably buy a ZTE Axon 7 soon. There are plenty of good non-Samsung options that are also not iphones.
I thought half the point of a Chromebook was that it was supposed to be cheaper than a standard laptop? I'd say the sweet spot is around $800or so now, but you can pick from a number of pretty decent laptops for around $500.
1) Install a 'NIX based OS. OR for Joe Sixpack
2) Get Windows to tell you your product key and reinstall Windows (after all, since it came with the computer, you paid for it). I doubt M$ will bake in "Net Nanny", even with the religious right fundies getting their undies in a knot.
Or just enter the password to turn it off? I think this is targeted at kids, not something that adult computer users wouldn't be allowed to disable. Even on Windows, very little software exists that can't be removed.
1. Anti-pornography feminism is a thing. Has been for decades.
Yes, it is a thing - a tiny one that no one really takes seriously because it has no chance of gaining any real traction, so everyone just accepts it and ignores it.
2. It's not quite as bad, but last year multiple high profile self-identified feminist-progressives signed a petition opposing Amesty International... because Amnesty International is against locking up prostitutes.
Yep, and you know your cause has no future when even Amnesty International thinks it is too idealistic to be practical.
So this "filter" is like a screen over part of the series of tubes?
So what. Do you really think Apple cares about a measly $2 million fine? That's not even a slap on the wrist to them. They may be more careful about compliance since the next fine would be bigger, but they could simply shrug this off as part of the cost of doing business - a very minor part.
If they are not careful, Obama may be forced to do something drastic, like issue a strongly worded letter of condemnation!
We'll expect a retraction of your snarky sarcasm here when something much more significant than a letter occurs.
Er - Afghanistan was attacked the very night the towers fell. Iraq was NEVER about 9/11.
Yeah, right. Tell that to Bush, Cheney, Rove, and millions of Americans. They were wrong, but they MADE Iraq about 9/11.
When AT&T and Verizon agree on something we need to question their motives. Hint: When a fox applies for a job at your chicken farm he probably isn't just after the health/dental/vision insurance and 401k you offer, even though he'll claim he just loves watching out for the chickens.
And unfortunately, it won't be long until the feds start using nothing but foxes to oversee all of our chicken farms. Bye bye, consumer protections. We hardly knew ye.
When AT&T and Verizon agree on something we need to question their motives.
Hint: When a fox applies for a job at your chicken farm he probably isn't just after the health/dental/vision insurance and 401k you offer, even though he'll claim he just loves watching out for the chickens.
If you don't like Wikipedia or how it raises money, you don't have to use it. How some people are so critical of a free service that no one is forced to use or pay for seems odd when you think about it. Come up with something better.
distros that use systemd aren't linux any more than android is linux.
Haters who spew the same crap anonymously in every thread don't have opinions worth considering any more so than do 5 year-olds.
And even if your point were correct it would not matter - many of the distros that utilize systemd are excellent (even if you consider systemd to be a flaw).
Please stop already.
Careful not to feed the troll. Apparently the same anonymous coward is whining all over this thread about the same minor/questionable bug because he is a Mint hater. I'm unaware of an OS that hasn't had exploitable bugs at times, and I'm not the least bit concerned about the new Mint release. And I don't intentionally conceal my identity when I post about it.
Thank you. I know of PricewaterhouseCoopers and figured this wasn't about jetskis, but I was unaware of what PwC meant and the summary never actually spelled out the company's name. I don't trade companies like this (their symbol is PwC) and their logo is stylized as pwc, not PwC.
Who gives a shit? That's not actually what the spacebar is supposed to do in the first place. Besides, we already have the page down key.
I'm much more concerned about organizations I trusted for news (like Slashdot) report on stories like this as if they are important or matter. No, the space bar doesn't always function as it used to on web pages, and the author's 1954 Studebaker Conestoga doesn't like today's unleaded ethanol gasoline blends, either, but neither of those are major problems.
Hitting "return" also doesn't bring you back to the left side of your sheet of paper and to the next line with the "ding" of a bell anymore, either, and rotary-dial phones are becoming increasingly rare. Just do like everyone else and press the buttons on your new-fangled wireless mobile phone gizmo and hit the damn "page down" key or scroll on your mouse or touchpad when you want to move down a web page. The web isn't all plain html these days, if you hadn't noticed, and a lot of page views are on devices that don't even have a physical space bar.
Except for the unpatched kernel vulnerabilities because they keep using an out of track non-LTS kernel. Maybe that's changed since the last big kernel exploit that went unpatched for 18months on Mint but the project has an atrocious record on security and no matter how much you like it you shouldn't ignore the warts it's got.
I'll take the warts and security vulnerabilities that Mint has versus all of the problems Windows has, especially for a desktop system. Of course I wouldn't run Mint on mission-critical enterprise servers, but that isn't the target market, and no one with major infrastructural concerns needs the simplicity of Mint, either. It isn't perfect, but Mint is a viable alternative to M$ for the average (or slightly above) home user.
Can I play ALL my games, perfectly and without issues, at the same or better framerate?
Nope, and I can't play most of my games on Windows at all, since half of them are only released for dedicated consoles, you silly person!
I've certainly loved some PC-only games over the years, but at this point in my life, spending $2000 every 2-3 years so I can play a handful of worthwhile PC-only games seems like a mistake. When I can buy a $300 console that plays way more good games, and quite a few that have no Windows versions, I can't justify being into PC gaming anymore. I used to be a PC game snob too, but I think I'm done with shelling out the dough for 120 FPS and using a keyboard for games.
Right, having no control over updates or what your OS is doing behind your back sure makes Windows great. I don't know what you're trying to do, but just about everything I can do in Windows works great in Mint, too. Or were your comments made in jest?
Gaming is the one exception, though Linux has caught up a tiny bit. PC games are still superior to consoles, but the fact that so many titles are console-only, as well as the overall simplicity factor, makes choosing an Xbox One or PS4 over an expensive PC an easy choice for most people.
Every other day, there seems to be a new "operating system" released, always in "beta" (and never leaving that stage)... but it's just a Linux distribution! It's just a bunch of standard junkware slapped together! I don't understand this obsession with making new Linux distros when there already are a billion of them.
If you want to sound crotchety and whiny, that's up to you. But you are completely wrong here, since Mint has been around for about ten years and is an excellent operating system with a great team and professional lead developer, not "junkware slapped together." I don't agree with one of the bigoted political stances Mint head Clem has taken in the past but I've been running it for 9 years and fully understand why it is one of the most popular and respected distros (and he's kept quiet about his hate for Israel in recent years). You can be lazy and let MS run your computer and data if you like, but that doesn't mean there aren't 10-20 really good Linux distros out there completely ready for prime time, beta or otherwise.