You forgot the lack of manual saves (quicksave or otherwise). Whenever someone complains about checkpointed save systems, invariable someone chimes in and suggests that continually pressing F5 is hardly an improvement. What the said smartarse fails to mention is that pressing F5 ensures you've saved NOW, and hence can safely quick the game knowing it's going to load exactly where you saved and not a checkpoint 5-10 minutes ago.

It also means you can experiment more with situations, try out various weapons or tactics or ideas since you can just save manually before doing so. If the lack checkpoint was a while back, the enthusiasm to experiment deteriorates if you have to progress through scripted sequences to get back to where you started messing around.

Oh and of course, no-one said that a checkpoint AND manual save system couldn't be implemented. Games like Deus Ex - Human Revolution and even Half-Life 2 have this feature, and it works great for both types of players. But apparently to some idiots, if you complain about checkpoints you must be a save-smasher.

TL;DR - people suck on the Internet and are unable to form a argument unless it involves belittling other people.

I know, I know, it's just an excuse to have fun at someone's expense. :)

I see. Thank you for the update Mr. PayPal-employee.

A gut goes to the doctor

To be honest if your gut somehow manages to detach itself from your body, it's probably a good thing it's going to see the doctor.

"We are moving to the cloud powered by OpenStack to enable agility, availability and the innovation necessary to get the best products to our customers, faster than our competitors."

Is there some kind of disease in which anyone who reaches a high enough level in the corporate world is required to talk in brain-dead marketing/buzzword speak?

Oh, and what product(s)? PayPal is a payment processor for online merchants. That's the only product anyone's aware of that they make.

The regular version of Mint though has the advantage of being to use Ubuntu PPAs, which can come in handy for projects which use PPAs to deliver the latest versions of their software. Otherwise I'd tend to agree - LMDE feels cleaner.

Linux is mentioned twice in the summary. Is there a reason why? We all know Linux has major use in the embedded and scientific world, this isn't a secret. Are people still desperate to mention Linux anywhere as some form of validation that they chose the right decision to stick with it or something?

I thought Linux had "won", or something. If that was the case then it shouldn't be necessary to circlejerk the name anymore.

Actually nevermind. I read your profile history - the vast majority of your posting style is a mix of passive aggressive and confrontational. You don't like to just discuss things - you want to make it clear that your opinion is right and the poster you're responding to is an idiot.

Is this just how you act on the Internet or are you as much of a dick in real life? Why the fuck can't you act a little respectfulness when posting? God know the Internet is a cesspool already; don't need to piss into it yourself.

Honestly it's not that difficult to understand... unless you're deliberately being obtuse just because you don't want to give credit to opinions that are difference to yours.

My point, put simply as I can - I don't want to use a platform that provides LESS than what another platform provides.

In further detail - a platform that doesn't support flash at all is less capable than one which does. Even if the experience of flash is suboptimal, the fact it's there at all is wholly better than nothing for the times when it comes in handy. The porn argument is trivial of course - there might be other sites that are flash-less, but they might not have as many vids, who knows. What I know for certain is that the sites I like can CONTINUE TO WORK IN ANDROID, but will fail on an iDevice.

And that's all I'm trying to say.

Depends how old the peripherals are. Windows 8 can use Vista drivers for a lot of things since they share the same driver format, so as long as they were made around 2006 onwards they should still be supported. Occasionally there are driver sets killed off from the Linux kernel for lack of support or interest, so it EOLing hardware happens everywhere.

As for new hardware, I still disagree that you need to check compatibility with Windows because, well... no-one is going to be selling consumer level hardware if it cannot be used with Windows. Unless you're using XP perhaps, and even then it's likely you're aware that an OS from 2001 is probably not in the forefront of manufacturer's minds anymore.

I suspect we could go backwards and forwards on this for a while - you'll say that Linux supports more hardware out of the box, I'll say that it's more important that the drivers exist in the first place; I'd rather deal with something that's not supported OOTB but still be able to download the driver and install it via Next, Next, Finish, compared to not having it available at all, which is sometimes the case in Linux.

You sound puzzled about that. You shouldn't be. Ask anyone in an enterprise environment to open a selection of their workplace docx and xlsx files with LibreOffice, and it will be immediately obvious that LibreOffice is not even ready for beta testing in the enterprise.

I'll be honest - I'm not puzzled at all. I just wrote it for the karma, since I know my audience. :)

LibreOffice is OK, but I won't use it because I have access to Office 2010 which is superior in every way (except for not being able to run on Linux, but I've given up on Linux desktops so I don't care anymore). You can't even interactively crop an image in LibreOffice's writer like you can in Word - you have to edit the properties of the file and specify the crop measurements by hand, check the preview window, and adjust again until correct.

Ultimately it's all the very small things added up together that ruin LibreOffice's chance with the big leagues.

I've heard that line way too many times and it simply doesn't work well in practice. When people buy hardware, they don't check compatibility with Linux because they've never had to do so with Windows. Why would people want to expend more effort when they aren't required to? That's basically going backwards.

Furthermore, it's not always easy. For example my computer motherboard has a Renesas USB 3 controller for two of my USB ports. In Windows they work fine... with the drivers installed of course. In Linux there's a reported incompatabiliy with that particular controller chip I'm using (can't remember the exact lsusb output) that results in an inability to detect things like external USB3 HDDs unless they're connected during bootup - plugging them in during a running session doesn't work. No-one has a fix, cos no-one looks after the edge cases except for the manufacturer.

Yes it's the manufacturer's fault because they obviously doesn't give a shit about Linux. I know this, you know this. But people (including myself) don't care who's fault it is because in the end, it means I can't use my USB3 ports to back up my rather large storage drive every so often like I do in Windows, not unless I want to wait for over 24 hours. And I don't, which makes Linux less capable than Windows FOR ME.

I should not have to change to suit the deficiencies of a platform - the platform should serve the user, not the way around. It's the same reason I don't use Linux anymore - I got tired of not being able to run top-tier software like Office and Photoshop, and although there are workarounds in the form of LibreOffice and GIMP, it's not enough.

Likewise, why should I have to use different sites to get around the iPhone's lack of a feature when Android supports what I'm already used to?

The installer's only one side of things though. There are still lots of annoying bugs and edge cases that simply don't get any attention by anyone apart from the occasional bug report that's never acknowledged. Don't get me wrong I appreciate a good installer - make it easy and it's easier for a novice user to start experimenting with Linux. Just don't expect them to remain when they start to compare the levels of polish to the proprietary systems with far more support.

You're probably right. I'm mainly making a comparison to all the naughty bits.