Touch-typing is useless as a skill in and of itself; what students actually need is a general Computer Literacy standard. I don't know about anyone else, but I always found touch typing to be a painful and completely arbitrary way to type. After years of use I developed my own method for typing quickly, which doesn't restrict me to keeping half of my fingers on the same handful of keys and stretching my other fingers uncomfortable distances, and I was by far the fastest typist in my high school class.

Making one of your products look better than another of your products doesn't really make any of your products look worse...

Seriously, are you people completely braindead?

A guy in charge of the website and donations disappears for a while, and the project developers write an "open letter" to get his ass back in line.

There is absolutely no change in the development of the distro itself, which is the part you supposedly use.

Yet for some reason, you're pissed off? To the point of considering migration to other distros?

Who the fuck are you? This was a completely internal problem. Any consequences were, as well, completely internal.

The only reason you even heard about it was because the members used the power of the internet to get to a webmaster who wasn't paying attention.

So please, explain to me: How is your reaction even remotely rational?

I love you guys.

Hyuck hyuck!

No, but I'm sure you'll tell us.

Unless you happen to be one of the few people who use SATA.

Part of developing software is learning to set up your environment. Period. If you can't do that much without someone holding your hand, you have no chance of wrapping your head around the internals of a project. You may as well switch to teaching.

Oh, there are problems, to be sure. Some small, some huge. That's why most average users never consider Linux distros. But developers are not average users.

It's viable for me. It's viable for lots of people. Anyone who doesn't mind understanding their platform is usually ok.

That seems to be a typical Ubuntu experience for a lot of people.

Well, garsh! Hyuck hyuck!

Are you retarded?

I've lost files on lots of different systems, including NTFS and ext3 and the kitchen sink. It's rarely the fault of the filesystem itself.

What do GUI toolkits, audio subsystems, and graphic subsystems have to do with source code licensing?

It is when used on GTK systems.

From wxwidgets.org:

wxWidgets lets developers create applications for Win32, Mac OS X, GTK+, X11, Motif, WinCE, and more using one codebase. It can be used from languages such as C++, Python, Perl, and C#/.NET. Unlike other cross-platform toolkits, wxWidgets applications look and feel native. This is because wxWidgets uses the platform's own native controls rather than emulating them.

Am I understanding this correctly? You are complaining about having to use 'second-rate' GPL programs because the GPL prevents software vendors from using their code? What?

You could have saved yourself a lot of time and said the same thing by saying

Wow, you seethe with bitterness. Let me guess--your girl left you for a Linux user?

You have an interesting definition of 'seasoned'. I guess just about anyone can become a codemonkey these days.

Here's a revolutionary thought: Cite sources or show some sort of supporting research when you make claims about something. Otherwise, nobody has any reason to take you seriously. Any 'professional' should be perfectly ok with that.

Read what I said, dumbass.

I was going to write something about how my Linux installations last about as long as my Vista ones before something goes wrong, but I just can't get past your magical powerless computer. How do you do it?

It bears repeating because of all the stupid people who tried to run Vista on hardware that even XP would shudder at, then complained that it didn't work or was too slow. Ugh.