You're right about the looks - but usability wise, I find gnome to be superior. I ran KDE for about 15 minutes before being so annoyed with not being able to do things I was used to in gnome that I switched back to gnome.
I can boot into an enviroment that I am familair with.
Also, any hardware that requires customer setting that would not be default for a live cd are already set up.
Speed is another factor.
Also, you minize downtime if you are running any kind of server. My wife can still access my printers while I resolve whatever is causing the issues with my main os.
That said, I use a live cd as well. I am not running anything important enough that downtime would realy effect me.
I won't even use it on my desktop systems because I'm concerned that its already starting to cause the project to focus more on the desktop and less on the server room than they should.
While I may never run a server, I do agree with the switch to be more concerned with the desktop experience.
It used to be that installing debian gave you a very generic desktop for whichever DM or WM you chose. Now we actually see the debian logo at grub, during boot, and then at logon. Not to mention that every service is installed and started by default nowadays.
I just chose the base install now. No tasksel desktop or standard system packages.
I always like Debian because it was very minimalistic (while conversely maintaining over twenty thousand packages.)
I don't see myself ever leaving Debian, but I really don;t want it to turn into a Ubuntu with a slower release cycle.
I downloaded them when I used windows and use apt with Debian.
With linux you need to use the matching kernel headers and a few other packages to successfully install the driver from the nvidia site.
If I use the debian package it does this for me.
While that seems trivial to me now, it was not when I was just starting.
In fact, (and I am not doubting you,) but I did not even know that you could get the nvidia driver through windows update and never would have thought to take that route.
I wish it was on by default so packages that I use (and therefore everyone else uses) would get more recognition.
While I kid about everyone having my interests, I imagine most people that do probably do not go to the trouble of turning Popcorn on. Especially not if they use a pre-packaged distro like sidux.
That said, when I do my installs on my machine, I always leave it on.
I do understand the privacy concerns, though, and respect Debian for choosing the default as no even though this information would be very useful to them.
What is interesting is how secure and easy it is to use.
I use it with fuse to mount my networked partitions. It involved no work and the fact that it is secure is just a bonus since there is no noticable speed loss for my transfers
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If I had my way, they wouldn't. Every cent earned on cigarette taxes would go towards a public anti-smoking campaign. If drugs were legalized and taxed, all the money made from the taxes would also go towards a public anti-drug campaign.
I'd be more impressed if it went to healthcare.
And honestly, is walking past a smoker more "leathal" than walking past a car or a bus?
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I need my smokes to get through workI get enough shit from that everwhere else.
My smokes pay for the roads, education, utilities...
He's got to be shitting himself now that people are finally starting to wake up to who and what ACORN is and how deeply in bed with them he is..
No. We'll just keep calling all opposition racists.
It doesn't matter what is said, if it is not pro-Obama it must be deeply rooted in racism.
To link this to the +4 grandparent post and make it on-topic: that is why they had to admonish (misspelled on purpose) Joe Wilson. I don't remember anyone being admonished last year for booing Bush while he was speaking in front of congress during the state of the union.
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set .bashrc as read only or don't have one at all so it can use the systems version.
It is a lot easier to prevent attack in linux than in windows. No one is saying it is impossible to attack it though.
See prohibition of alcohol. It was bad enough that they repealed it.
awww.. you gave away the end
I heard the internet will still be running at amusement parks
do you have any information about how much she's donated, compared to your donations to charities for the disabled
Are you talking about % of income or just totals?
That said, it is her money to do with what she pleases.
Hulu offers itself to linux users. We have been waiting years for that with Netflix.
You know this saying is so out there, I am waiting for Windows just to ship a bullshit sp1 to try to grab more market for 7 quicker.
You're right about the looks - but usability wise, I find gnome to be superior. I ran KDE for about 15 minutes before being so annoyed with not being able to do things I was used to in gnome that I switched back to gnome.
So you are saying you gave it a chance, huh?
I can boot into an enviroment that I am familair with.
Also, any hardware that requires customer setting that would not be default for a live cd are already set up.
Speed is another factor.
Also, you minize downtime if you are running any kind of server. My wife can still access my printers while I resolve whatever is causing the issues with my main os.
That said, I use a live cd as well. I am not running anything important enough that downtime would realy effect me.
Put grub on it's own partition and you have a nice backup in place.
Whether it is fedora, ubuntu, debian, etc, you can chroot into your main os and fix pretty much anything
I won't even use it on my desktop systems because I'm concerned that its already starting to cause the project to focus more on the desktop and less on the server room than they should.
While I may never run a server, I do agree with the switch to be more concerned with the desktop experience.
It used to be that installing debian gave you a very generic desktop for whichever DM or WM you chose. Now we actually see the debian logo at grub, during boot, and then at logon. Not to mention that every service is installed and started by default nowadays.
I just chose the base install now. No tasksel desktop or standard system packages.
I always like Debian because it was very minimalistic (while conversely maintaining over twenty thousand packages.)
I don't see myself ever leaving Debian, but I really don;t want it to turn into a Ubuntu with a slower release cycle.
I downloaded them when I used windows and use apt with Debian.
With linux you need to use the matching kernel headers and a few other packages to successfully install the driver from the nvidia site.
If I use the debian package it does this for me.
While that seems trivial to me now, it was not when I was just starting.
In fact, (and I am not doubting you,) but I did not even know that you could get the nvidia driver through windows update and never would have thought to take that route.
I wish it was on by default so packages that I use (and therefore everyone else uses) would get more recognition.
While I kid about everyone having my interests, I imagine most people that do probably do not go to the trouble of turning Popcorn on. Especially not if they use a pre-packaged distro like sidux.
That said, when I do my installs on my machine, I always leave it on.
I do understand the privacy concerns, though, and respect Debian for choosing the default as no even though this information would be very useful to them.
That is the attitude that keeps the market share 5-10%.
I wonder why you seem to care so much about them not making their games cross platform. That can almost only be a good thing.
And despite what the articles says, I would be glad if my non-student debt interest levels were as low as 8.x percent
So you are saying that the time in our history that we were most influenced by Europe was our savagest?
Interesting...
Hopefully we never try to mirror Europe again.
I must say, Europe seems to do a a great job moving past their historical sins and holding on to America's past sins.
Heck, they do better than Americans. We really seem to be stuck on the sins of our past and try to taint history against any good we have ever done.
Actually, I've never seen anybody call anybody else a racist just for disagreeing with Obama.
However, I've seen plenty people pretend they are only "disagreeing with policies" to cover their obvious racism.
You just did it right there.
I know you get an "Informative" for stating a non-fact and I will get a "Troll" for daring to speak the truth
That was a big sacrifice you made there, Mr. Anonymous Coward
What is interesting is how secure and easy it is to use.
I use it with fuse to mount my networked partitions. It involved no work and the fact that it is secure is just a bonus since there is no noticable speed loss for my transfers
If I had my way, they wouldn't. Every cent earned on cigarette taxes would go towards a public anti-smoking campaign. If drugs were legalized and taxed, all the money made from the taxes would also go towards a public anti-drug campaign.
I'd be more impressed if it went to healthcare.
And honestly, is walking past a smoker more "leathal" than walking past a car or a bus?
I need my smokes to get through workI get enough shit from that everwhere else.
My smokes pay for the roads, education, utilities...
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He's got to be shitting himself now that people are finally starting to wake up to who and what ACORN is and how deeply in bed with them he is..
No. We'll just keep calling all opposition racists.
It doesn't matter what is said, if it is not pro-Obama it must be deeply rooted in racism.
To link this to the +4 grandparent post and make it on-topic: that is why they had to admonish (misspelled on purpose) Joe Wilson. I don't remember anyone being admonished last year for booing Bush while he was speaking in front of congress during the state of the union.
Bullshit.
Nothing from Microsoft has ever slowed down a computer
It's called "reality".
Which happens to be something many staunch Bush supporters have problems with.
Weird, that, but explains a lot.
If you believe that lack of reality only affects only one side, you didn't listen to Obama's speech last night
The brits briefed the US president and company on the issue and asked the US to hold off any action until they had the evidence to convict.
Wow. Did the brits meet with the president daily?
Or are we still trying to blame Bush for everything wrong that happened for the past 8 years?