Well it seems there is something a number of us agree on. Why is the Ubuntu Unity launcher so ugly?
I thought perhaps it was something to do with...
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...
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Oh goodie another piece of bloated virus-ware from Microsoft. So many questions come to mind.
How badly will I be robed / extorted this time?
How many years before the thing is useable?
Will it be released with it's own set of thousands of worms and spy-ware or will I have to wait a few months?
Will native applications arrive before the end of this or the next decade?
Why is the industry's claimed "leader" always LAST to deliver anything?
The only question one doesn't have to ask is "Are there a ready supply of incredibly stupid people ready to throw away money on this new Microsoft abomination." of course there are.
People don't suddenly become intelligent, especially the profoundly stupid who have been Windows drones for ever. Those cases require desperate measures to rehabilitate. Don't believe it just ask any one of them if they will continue to buy the worst OS on earth that has the whole malware world infesting them and they will tell you they are going to continue their stupidity in spite of all indications that it will continue to be exponentially worse. Soon nine out of ten work hours will be dedicated to Windows maintenance and repair. But that other hour will be somewhat productive, we hope.
Since no retail version is planned this is useless to those who have bought or built 64-bit systems over the last 2 years.
It's a shame they stalled this because Intel didn't have a 64 bit chip ready....
Who cares? We have 64-bit GNU/Linux, not to mention 64-bit FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. For those who haven't tried out SuSE Linux 9.x Professional, you should; I find it very easy to use as a desktop OS. *VERY* easy. And yes, I came initially from a MS Windows background.
For servers, Windows shouldn't even be getting used. What about "user-friendliness", the MCSE's will ask? User-friendliness doesn't matter as much in a server, because end-users aren't sitting at the server console; properly trained sysadmins are. If they're not, then there's a much bigger problem, regardless of platform, that neither Windows, GNU/Linux, *BSD, OS X, or any other operating system can solve. I make sure to put knowledgeable people on my servers, regardless of what OS the server is running.