Totally agreed. What is "wrong" or "evil" about suicide? The only thing I can think of is the feelings of loved ones, which, in reality, is a pretty "selfish" thing to feel.

The music industry, in attempting to sell the world "the next nirvana" was what ruined POP MUSIC during the 90's. If that's all you listened to, that's your fault. Kurt Cobain was an artist in the truest sense of the word, caring about nothing other than creating what he saw as art.

X11 may not be the default windowing system for OSX, but it's been available since OSX's inception. Also, Darwin is not FreeBSD, even though it is based on it. You need to compile everything from source to make it work (this is the definition of non-trivial). And lastly (albeit most importantly), Apple hardware is comparably priced with anything from Dell, HP, or Lenovo (check it out). That being said, if the author wanted a retina display for whatever reason, he needed to buy a MBP. The other manufacturers you name don't offer products with this high resolution. My first laptop was an ibook G4 which I bought second-hand, just to see what the fuss was about. Although I had the same opinion of OSX at that time, I was wrong. It took me about a year before I jettisoned OSX in favour of Debian (and later Ubuntu, when it worked well enough). The hardware, though, was fantastic. I've since owned several laptops and none have outlasted that old ibook, which is still in use (it's our kitchen computer now).

That's exactly what my wife and I did, but we only mailed the dvds to older people. Everyone we felt was comfortable using the internet got a link to our custom website which featured the video on the front page and all other info in the primary menu. It was hosted at megananddick.com, but there's still an archive of it at megananddick.dickmacinnis.com

I'm writing this from an HTC incredible S, and it definitely has touch to focus, along with HTC sense interface, software updates to gingerbread although it was released with froyo, very speedy interface/apps, two very quick cameras, an almost identical design to an iphone with the exception of the removable battery, all the benefits of android, none of the drawbacks of ios, an unprecendented amount of available apps via a small checkbox that allows me to install 3rd party apps, and it costs the same as an iphone 4s.

It takes about an hour to install, configure and run UCK (Ubuntu Customization Kit), and is as easy as installing apps via synaptic. When you're done, you have a custom install disc that you can share and voila: You're a contributor.

I wish I had (or knew how to use) mod points. This is right up my alley as far as humour goes. Strange that when I read it it was modded simply "2".

I assume you mean "when will Debian update WINE?", because a new version of WINE just came out last week.

Why on earth would anyone use XFCE for a "light" desktop, especially as a Linux user, when there's Fluxbox?

I would think that calling dumbing-down "retarding down" is incredibly insensitive. I'm not sure why you'd even suggest that. Not that "dumbing down" is any better really, as the word dumb originally referred to someone who is mute. But at least nobody refers to a mute person as "dumb" anymore (at least nobody under 60). And yes, I realize that the ageism in my last parenthesis is just as offensive as what I'm railing against. Have a nice day ;-)

Actually, what the OP said "implies" an idea. You "inferred" that idea. So perhaps you meant to say "...from which I infer a change", or "...which implies a change".

I Hate to be a grammar Nazi, but you started it ;-).

Why would you have a secondary screen to the left, and not make that the primary screen? Do you read right to left (I'm assuming not, since you posted in English)?

Precisely! My favourite rant about Unity is people complaining that it's not as customisable as gnome2/docky, etc. My question to those people is: if you're using docky and customizing gnome, why are you complaining about the DEFAULT desktop in Ubuntu. If you know how to install/configure docky, and how to configure/remove gnome panels, you should probably find it no problem to switch from unity back to gnome2. It's literally a 1 minute change. And I AM one of those people who like to customize (I have 6 household computers; two mediacenter PCs run custom compiz with no gnome panels, two laptops run fluxbox with nomachine clients, one audio computer runs classic gnome, and only my one main development machine runs stock ubuntu). Why would I complain about the fact that the default isn't MY default? Because that would be DUMB!!!! The reasons Ubuntu rules the desktop linux world are: 1) it just works 2) software center/apt kicks ass. 3) available software via official repos/ppas is unbeatable 4) I CAN customize. If the DEFAULT DE/WM make you feel like switching to a different distro, fine, but don't think for one second that your user experience will ever get easier by going that route.