Duplicate comments are not made intentionally. Its very good to know that now you are keeping check on this problem because sometimes a commenter...
"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
Talkback
It is very rare that I offer my support for Dell but I certainly do here. Offering Linux is a massive step in the right direction and issues such as the ones highlight in the story are expected.
While this is a move that could of perhaps been done 2 to 3 years ago at-least we got there!
If only the Brits spoke the same language as the Americans !
then they would have had linux on their Dell.
And then there is the issue of support ! Where else could one found support for linux, if not with Dell ????
i have linux installed on a Dell in the UK (shock! horror!)
What's more it installed without the need for additional drivers unlike Windows which doesn't recognise anything (sound, network, graphics, usb, etc etc).
Not only that it boots up quicker is better and has loads of free software.
So, why keep Windows? One thing, games software. I doubt no one would disagree that Linux doesn't have enough commercial games, and yes Linux does have wine but its only an emulator and whilst I lot of things run there are problems
So the only thing I use Windows for is games, anything else I use Linux. As for Dell Support - ha! What support? All they do is read things from a script. Prove it, just ring them up and tell them what the problem is, tell them you already ran a diagnostics, that you rebooted the PC 100000 times already, uninstalled everything, reinstalled everything and then listen to them flounder... works for us everytime and they always replace the offending part without a whimper.