My experience with USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 has been quite a bit different; yeah there are hiccups but overall the net effect is quite positive.

I love being able to plug a single non-proprietary cord from laptop to docking station and gain multiple monitors, keyboard, mouse, gig ethernet, and power.

Yes, it's a very new technology, and there are growing pains during the early adopter period. Same thing can be said about any new hardware technology / standard.

FWIW I currently have a Nexus 6P, Dell XPS 15 (9550), a Toshiba Thunderbolt 3 dock, and a custom-built AMD Ryzen rig running Ubuntu, all using some type of USB-C connection.

USB-PD has worked near flawlessly. The Toshiba dock is currently failing to charge my laptop; a previous USB-C dock (Plugable triple monitor) charged the laptop fine but didn't have the bandwidth to drive both my monitors without stuttering. So yeah, that's probably some minor compatibility issue, but hopefully it'll get fixed w/ firmware update.

But the Toshiba dock drives both monitors over HDMI, and all other peripherals+network, perfectly. It's amazing to me that a single cable can accomplish all that, with devices from multiple different OEMs. And it will only get better.

I'm reminded of a saying about wanting in one hand, and shitting in the other...

I must say I'm completely dumbfounded by the public reaction to all of this. I didn't read the memo, but at worst it was one person at a company who had a wrong opinion. From all the media outrage over the past couple days you'd think Google had declared war on an entire gender.

In a company that big you're bound to have people with all sorts of opinions. Some of those opinions will be ignorant. The way to solve ignorance is with discussion, education, and patience. The reaction to this memo was the opposite of all those things.

This is why attempts to solve gender and minority issues continue to meet such resistance. The cacophony had reached such incredible volume that Google had no choice. I'm sure they knew they were on shaky ground but there was really no other out for them.

There's a big difference between firing someone without a good reason, vs. firing someone for an illegal reason. There are plenty of examples for the latter: you can't fire someone because they got pregnant, or reached a certain age, etc. Not saying that's the case here, but if someone can show that the reason for their termination was illegal (e.g. an internal management memo or meeting notes discussing "we need to get rid of all these old people!") then yes, they most certainly can sue for wrongful termination.

You don't have anything to worry about; the summary is very misleading. TFA says: "Upgrade to Linux kernel 4.11 as soon as possible if you're using Linux 4.10".

4.9 is an LTS release and will be supported until Jan 2019. Even if using a version not supported directly by the kernel maintainers, many distros backport and test security fixes to their currently-supported releases for many years.

FTFY

Probably about 3 months. Beta is the next version, Dev is weekly build, Canary is nightly build. Stable releases are every 6 weeks.

https://www.chromium.org/getti...

Uuuh, you do realize that Microsoft enables Ubuntu to be run in-process in Windows 10? It's called "Windows Subsystem for Linux."

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

As to "why", it's because lots of open-source tools are designed to only run on Linux, and Microsoft wanted to make those tools available to Windows users too.

All joking aside, I will say that I quite agree with this statement. It's quickly becoming my go-to coding editor. Finally having a good experience that's the same on Linux and Windows is huge for me.

I just hope that the Git visualization support (history, blame, diffs etc) gets better, either in the core product or via plugins. Nothing on Linux has come close to the speed, ease of use, and feature set of TortoiseGit for me. All the existing plugins seem to want to render the log history as a single list, as opposed to a graph tree showing merges etc.

Well I would hope that a modern IDE released in 2017 would have 60 FPS! I also have the 4K cursor, HDR cursor, 3D cursor, Retina cursor, and VR cursor plugins all enabled, but I realize that may be overkill for some people. As soon as I get my new water cooling rig set up it'll be buttery smooooth.

"Be Stupid and Lazy" sounds a lot like Lary Wall's "Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris" http://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessIm...

Of course, maybe the "Be Stupid and Lazy" author was just being lazy :)

Seeing as how the only purpose of IE/Edge is to download Chrome/Firefox, I guess they figured that was the next logical step...

Or, considering that Chrome's chief of security recently said that antivirus software is "my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser," maybe Chrome is going to get rid of the ability for other apps to install stealth plug-ins at all.

Considering they have at least tried to make the presence of such plug-ins more transparent in the past, I'm optimistic that's indeed their plan.

I completely agree; my remark was just poking fun at the headline which for some reason decided that "drawing underlines" was one of the top features of Wine 2.0.

And yeah, I got fed up troubleshooting my Dad's desktop with Windows, and talked him into buying a System 76 "nettop" with Ubuntu. He's been using it ever since and my support calls have dropped to near zero.

It truly is the year of the Linux desktop!