Perhaps I have just been lucky in my 35 years of working for quite a few different companies to never have run across anything even remotely like your bad experiences.

For each of these incidents I very much hope you reported all the associated ass hats to someone high up enough to actually do something appropriate, like fire them all immediately.

>>If we as a society don't do these things,

I disagree. I think there's already plenty of opportunity in the tech field in the US no matter what gender or race you are (and no... I'm not an American white guy). You just need to get off your ass, do the schooling and go get a job. Yes its hard so it takes continued effort. That's really the part that most people actually dont like. Personally I dont see much of a problem with the current system, or feel society has any responsibility to change it.

>> zip code, ethnicity, and even gender will play too a large a role in determining who becomes a "have" vs a "have not"

Again I call bullshit. Unfortunately I've seen first hand all to many times that some people automatically just play the minority card each time to avoid ever having to make an effort to help themselves. The only reason they still do it is because it works thanks to most white men having already been programmed to feel socially guilty for everyone elses failures by a society with a screwed up socialist agenda like yours.

I can't wait for the first lawsuit because the driver wasn't driving with due care and attention.

can we get over these complete bullshit stories about gender and race prejudice in high tech offices? Nothing I have seen during my 35 years of being a software developer at many different companies has suggested this is even remotely true.

Literally every company I have ever worked at has gone above and beyond all existing laws to make sure there is absolutely no racial or gender-prejudice in hiring in any way . In fact they err on the side of caution so much it actually seems to be a positive advantage at interview time to be a female, or racial minority, or disabled. if you're all 3 you could probably name your own salary (joke).

I refuse to believe that these days anyone can't get a job at a high-tech company just because of skin color, gender or racial origin. Not least because if they could even slightly prove that, they could sue and it would be all over the news, and the companies themselves are hyper-sensitive to this.

I'd bet a stack on that the fact that high-tech companies are still more filled with white guys than anything else solely because that where nearly all the (actually suitable) job applications come from in the first place.

If you want to force an actually very biassed and unnatural 50% racial and gender balance in the work place, then you need to look at why its still mostly white guys that apply in the first place, not blame the companies for hiring from the pool of suitable applicants who are actually out there.

>> nouveau.modeset=0

Thanks, this is great, just the information I've needed for a long while.

I've never seen this parameter documented anywhere. How the heck did you find out about it?

>> I'm attracted to the ease of "owning" an android device, but, ultimately, I want a phone that just works. I rarely want to tinker with it.

This whole post looks very much like more FUD/advertising from Microsoft using social channels.

Having owned and used several different android devices for years I can tell you android exactly does "just work". What makes you even think you have to tinker with it to get it to work?

>> Regarding Android - every android phone I've seen has been completely different from the others.

Thats a GOOD thing. Its called freedom of choice. Besides, Android is easy to figure out (IMHO way easier than Microsoft's UI) and the user interface of all the differnet Android phones really aren't all that dffernet from each other anyway. If you need more than a few minutes to figure it out then you probably won't ever master chewing gum and walking at the same time either.

>> I don't use gmail and I don't trust google.

Everyone's free to their own opinion but coming from the angle of a comparison to Microsoft thats just downright funny.

>> Today windows phone architecturally is quite good

TBH I don't know much about the current Windows Phone OS. Does it (still) have a registry?
If so that alone would be enough cause for me to disagree with your "architecturally quite good" statement.

I agree with what you're saying. No one is completely trustworthy.

Assuming its pretty much comes down to a choice between Apple, Google and Microsoft though, and just going on visible previous track record, Google hasn't ever apparently done anything half as dirty as Microsoft or Apple already have in the past to their own customers.

I also like the fact that Android is based on Linux, (just because I like Linux) and I also like that the source for Android and most of its standard compnents is also open for all to examine (unlike Microsoft or Apple's os's), meaning they can't as easily get away with anything obviously aggregious, at least embedded in the core firmware. And if you found out they tried to, unlike Apple or Microsoft, with Android you can just install an alternatively sourced firmware or even build your own self-audited version.

That's not to say that I don't think Google would ever screw its customers given the right set of cicumstances, its just that they seem more aware of the large hidden cost of the inevitable discovery of doing so after a while than the others.

You have to remember that Google got where they were in the first place by at least apparently looking after its customers more than the others, mostly by giving a lot of actually very high quality services away for free as in beer.

>> Well Microsoft has a pretty good history of offering long term support ...except most of the updates are often years-late fixes for Microsoft's own failings such as bugs, security holes and broken features. Most of the time Microsoft is way behind the fixing curve, even sometimes choosing to never fix known security flaws.

Due to a fundamentally much better design architecture, Linux and to some degree Android either don't or can't suffer with many of the problems Windows has in the first place. Those that do happen also get fixed much quicker due to a much more active developer base.

I can't imagine that any of the security weaknesses that Microsoft have said they would never fix, would ever not get quickly fixed if they were equivalent Linux problems.

With all the evidence out there of bad things Microsoft repeatedly do to their own customers over the years, it boggles my mind how anyone still trusts anything Microsoft does now enough to even buy a Microsoft product.

I personally would never do so or even trust any Microsoft product with any personal data.

>> And you are still pretending it provides that?

I've already explained that the nVidia binary driver has worked pretty much flawlessly for me over at least the last 10 years of running several different nVidia GPUs and several different distros on several different PCs. This is something I have directly experienced. It is therefore not just opinion open for being persuaded that I am wrong.

>> When you just admitted it wont even compile?

Unless you're using a platform that isn't a PC, (Which is completely outside the scope of this discussion) your point is meaningless. You seem to be very confused between the ability to personally compile something for it to be high quality/work properly, which makes no sense.

>> How do you maintain such doublethink without snapping something inside?

Seriously if you can make a logically sound point free of personal attacks then I will reply otherwise I'm leaving it here.

>> Linux has become a BETTER gaming platform than Windows

It pretty much always was. I remember hearing maybe 7 or 8 years ago how quite a few windows games actually ran faster under Wine than Windows.

The continuing problem is getting games developers to stop assuming everyone just runs windows on their PCs, and to release Linux versions too, especially for their premium games.

many if not most modern games are based on commercial game engines such as Unreal 4, so the developers are more like artists, mostly just designing assets and writing scripts rather than coding any directX or OpenGL code.

Many if not most of those games engines do already support Linux targets so producing a Linux version really should be a no-brainer.

>> Not surprising with a small sample and homogenous hardware,

You need to take a look around the internet. Its not just me, there are many different articles supporting that the nvidia binary drivers perform much better than nouveau. I can't even find one supporting nouveau over nvidia's own for stability and performance.

I do agree that trying to get a binary driver for one architecture working on another architecture would be crazy. Don't get me wrong, I totally support the idea of open source drivers for that and many other reasons, and I do very much wish nVidia would opensource theirs, or at least dedicate some significant engineering resource into making noveau as good or better than their own Linux drivers.

For me and the many others that just want their Linux boxes to work, rather than people who actually want to tweak broken driver code, or put up with consistent poor performance and crashes to make some ideological point, choosing to install nvidia's own binary driver over nouveau is currently a no-brainer.

The Mint devs need to get a grip on the fact that most of its users do just want their box to work instead of by default geting the philosophically more pure but actually way more broken driver.

>> The binary driver is a buggy POS on any system, and will never be anything else.

No it really isn't. i run it on several linux boxes all with different nVidia GPUs and they all work perfectly. By which I mean I've NEVER seen a crash using the nVidia Linux driver.

Novueau crashes all the time. On my laptop especailyl I can't even start it.

Even though this is a good step in the right direction, Nouveau still isn't even stable enough for general consumption, let alone seriously competitive with features or performance of nVidia's binary-only driver.

It annoys the heck out of me that Mint switched to installing nouveau by default and especially without any alternative graphics driver option at install time, as on my laptop at least, as soon as Nouveau starts it crashes and locks up the whole PC. Trendy political correctness for (broken) open source shouldn't ever trump a binary driver if it actually works better, or especialy if it is the only option that works at all in some cases.

Add on top of that the fact that Mint devs also removed Ubuntu's boot menu option to install Linux before X starts, means the retarded decision to use nouveau by default makes it impossible for me and presumably therefore many others to install Mint from scratch without some obscure and what should be completely unnecessary hacking every time.

If even just installing Mint is borked, its really going to put off people who are trying Linux for the first time.