Get rid of the bloat. Cut out of the complexity. Drop most of the "features" and come back when they have a simple, well designed, reliable and FAST desktop environment.
Congratulation on your perfect description of LXDE !
I'm guessing you've not tried it. Win8 is actually better on multiple displays because the task bar is on both.
you mean like it's been on my Linux box for years ?
Wow, seems like windows is finally catching up to some Linux features !
I'd rather give money to Valve than, say, EA... but I'd far rather give my money to someone who's going to make more DRM-free games that I can actually install from an installer or a backup without having to deal with a crack that may be infested with a virus.
Like the games on gog.com ?
I buy games from them because there is no DRM
WindowsTOGO makes it possible to use a Windows bootcd like Linux users have done for a decade.
Glad to see MS is finally catching up !
Get an office365 subscription.
Hosted exchange + the full office suit. Honestly it's a decent way to do this until you decide to roll your own infrastructure. If you ever do. (We have it scaled across 15 companies and ~1200 users)
And we all know what the 365 in the name means : it's down every February 29th
Anyway, this (and other limitations you listed) should be gone in WP8.
Like every problem in every Windows version, it should be gone in the next version.
Keep the faith my friend, some day, Microsoft will get something out the door that won't suck. And I guess it will be a vacuum.
I've literally never had an easier time launching any program, even the ones that I use once in a blue moon, as I've had on Windows 7.
It looks like you never used anything but Windows either. I've been using this feature in KDE for years. And when I saw it Windows 7, I was glad they copied it
my second car is a 95 neon that gets almost 40 mpg when the motor or transmission breaks I go to the wrecking yard and buy a used one for $100 to $200. One sometimes two Sundays and it is back on the road and I take the old motor to be melted for scrap, fluids are recycled, rubber is recycled and when its time for another neon (neons are my car of choice due to parts availability and ease of repair) my old one goes the the wrecker and I get $75 a ton for the scrap. Now which is more environmentally responsible my neon or a super expensive EV that most people can not afford.
The more environmentally responsible is a car that you don't have to change the motor / transmission every year.
You should try a good car for a change, maybe a Toyota or a Honda. I've run a Tercel to more than 600,000 km on the original engine/transmission.
Those Neons are junk, even when new.
as long as you don't mind violating the EULA
Where I live, that EULA doesn't have a leg to stand on, so why should I care ?
Yah, I can't say that I care much about start-up times
Me neither :
uptime 07:55:31 up 1532 days, 18:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I must confess that I'm a little behind on kernel updates
Install Windows, problem solved.
If you think installing windows solves problems, you've got it all wrong
When Ubuntu goes to Unity exclusively and Win 8 is out, not sure what I'll do.
Just install KDE and your problem is solved
Is it just me, or is there nothing to the posted article?
What do you mean, we are supposed to read the article ?
How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? "That's a known problem... don't worry about it."
