Ubuntu reigns king
Forces Unity on users
Its own crown of thorns

I think Mir might eventually replace X. It's already been replacing Hurd for quite some time.

Straw man*. Just because I said the US goverment is arguably worse does not mean I'm saying other criminals are innocent or any less bad. This isn't a sports match, one "side" doesn't have to "win". And we'll have to agree to disagree on the whole "Afghanistan was necessary" thing and on the classification of what the American military did. Their actions weren't only "criminal negligence", they were straight up war crimes by definition.

*That would be misrepresenting some else's argument, like you did to mine. I did not even allude to any given argument, just made a subjective analytical comparison.

We all know that's important. However, for the regular user, someone remotely exploiting a xorg bug is way less likely than a video driver fuckup (especially if the user opted for a blob). And whoever doesn't know what xorg or a kernel are is unlikely to solve the problem when presented with a terminal, thus dooming the machine completely. So yes, Mint's way makes more sense for the unaware user. And the aware user can configure it to his liking.

LFS isn't a branch, it's more akin to the root. Or maybe a book on growing branches, designed for trees. Which is more accurate but kind of wrecks the metaphor.

Not only that, but even if we take the deaths and horrors the US government is directly responsible for, by actions which are violent in nature (so I'm excluding both inaction and disastrous economic measures, for the purposes of this comparion). they beat the mexican cartels pretty easily. Look at the number of dead and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Look at the US prision system: almost 1% of its population is behind bars - that's more than 2 million people. Working people, producing armaments and other cheap goods. It's institutionalized captivity and slavery. The mexican cartels are showy, yes, and maybe inspire more horror, but that's only if you don't take scale into consideration.

I'd rather not use one. According to the ads, deodorants are sexy as hell, and sexiness and prisons are disastrous bedfellows.

Is that what I think it is? They aren't simply content on using slave labor anymore in prisons, they're also turning the slavers into consumers for double the profits?

As well he should. That website's layout is downright criminal.

Yeah. Legacy support is also a huge plus for AMD. Try to make either nouveau or NV's blob work on a GeForce FX or 6 series. Unity, Gnome and Cinnamon are terribly broken and NVIDIA said it's a won'tfix. The computer I'm typing this on has a Radeon HD5570 and an integrated GeForce 7025. The latter is useless due to faulty legacy drivers under Linux, failing to render the desktop. On an integrated card from 2006. AMD's open driver, meanwhile, properly supports even the 9000 series, from 2003. Given the current slow pace of noticeable hardware improvement, legacy support is more important than ever, and NVIDIA is leaving a lot to be desired on that front. As for AMD, the only annoyance I've been through was fglrx not supporting newer kernel or xorg releases fast enough, so I'd have to revert to the open driver for a while. Since the last time I had to do that, though, I installed Linux 3.11 and haven't bothered with fglrx since.

For what I have experienced, that perception is a bit outdated. AMD's drivers have been as good as NVIDIA's for about one or two years. On Windows. On Linux, NVIDIA is still way, way better. For newer cards. If you can use the proprietary driver at all.

Unfortunately, that's not a good plan either. If you look at the place in which it's succeeded the most, the US, you'll still see lots of undesirable byproducts of unregulated business, like major income inequality and, consequently, a higher prison population. Not to mention the decline the US has been experiencing due to relying on unsustainable exponential growth. What I mean to say is that we're fucked either way, embracing or extinguishing the free market.

Can't you see he's fighting for our freedoms? That patent is just the start, there are plenty more in the works. Eventually, they'll cover every way of handing the government information, and no one else will be able to do it. It's genius.

"Maduro showed astonishment at a fridge on sale in Daka for 196,000 bolivars ($31,111 at the official rate), and said an air-conditioning unit that goes for 7,000 bolivars ($1,111) in state stores was marked up 36,000 bolivars ($5,714) by Daka.."

Seems something is dratically wrong there, though. I don't know is this sort of approach will yield any results, but it'll be interesting to see the fallout.

It's funny how different perspectives can be. If I wanted to contribute to the kernel and someone ended up being severely impolite, I'd find it weird and either reply or don't. On the other hand, if my boss was being abusive, I'd switch jobs ASAP. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I find random interpersonal abuse way less disturbing than workplace abuse, since in the latter case you're at a clear hierarchical disadvantage and actually depend on your boss to get your paycheck.

And, by the way, it's interesting that you say "some prick who expects me to VOLUNTEER for the honor of having him dress me down like a bitch? Not so much." while posting on /., where that kind of free verbal aggression seems to be mandatory.