(cough) Ninite (cough) .... The ONLY way to get GIMP and a LOT of other good stuff freeware/opensource programs for Windows.. Back when I still used Windows, I wouldn't be without it...

Then it sounds to me that we have a case of the "left hand" not having a clue what the "right hand" is doing.. vis a vis the Dice/Slashdot crew and the Dice/ Sourceforge crew... Is that about it??

For those who still use Windows and want GIMP (and a LOT of other opensource and freeware Windows programs) you can't beat Ninite.. https://ninite.com/ Ninite does all of the work to make sure you only get the desired opensource program and NONE of the crapware/malware garbage that so many installers are adding on today.. (Yes, I'm looking at YOU, Oracle... You and your fuckin' Ask toolbar on Java installs)... Thankfully I've switched completely to Linux and don't have to worry about that crap...

Yeah... Google replaces the "hardware failure" with a "business decision failure".... Same difference, your data's gone...

And do you think that paying them will stop them from killing this service too, when they get the urge? I say STAY THE HELL AWAY!!!

Thats until they're NOT.... Google has a VERY nasty habit of cranking up these spiffy services, running them for a while, getting everybody onboard
  with them, then turning them off.... Stay away!! STAY FAR AWAY!!

Glad I don't use Windows anymore.. Kinda hard to pull that kinda crap on Linux distro repos... Unfortuantly ANYthing Dice touches turns to shit... so what do you expect with SF... Fortuantly there are plenty more development sites *like* SF that don't pull that kind of shit...Echoing "Fuk you dice"......

Yeah.. I noticed that.. Rightt now, here on Slashdot, where I'm such a good user, I get to have ads turned off, uBlock is reporting 2 ad networks are *still* trying to put their shit on my system.. Good job, Dice.. Good thing I use Linux instead of Windows...

Good Lord... Kids.. 16 for me would be 1966...

Obligatory Hey_You_Kids_Get_Off_My_Lawn....

I beg to differ on that.. I have a Dell Precision M4400 that I generally run Linux on. The laptop has Nvidia Quadro FX580M 512mb discrete video. I've *never* had a
hiccup on Linux, using the Nvidia "blob" driver. I did some work for a friend on his Windows install, and rather than pay me, he gave me a spare shrink-wrapped
retail copy of Windows 8.1. Just for shits/grins, I took a spare drive, popped it in the laptop instead of the Linux disk, and installed 8.1.. Figured since I'm the defacto neighborhood "tech support" I might as well get familiar with 8.1, since the last Windows I had any exposure to was Windows 7. The install went ok, and after the several reboots, the system *appeared* to be up and running.. No sooner did I get a local account created on the damn thing (don't want me no MS account...), the fucking thing blows a bluescreen.. the goofy new BSOD screen tells me its a "video_tdr_failure" in "nvlddmkm.sys"... Which of course is part of the Nvidia driver that MS plops on your system if you have an Nvidia card.. And of course, they've changed the way to get into safe mode... I screwed around with it for a while and then just said "Fuckit", and went back to Linux... Guess I'll peddle the package on Craigslist and see what I can get for it...

The no-change battery is a BIG FAIL.. Its Dell trying to imitate Apple, SHAME on Dell for this crap on an otherwise great spec'ed machine....

I call it "Windows Janitorial" work... Did it myself from 1991 till 2010... Now its Linux ONLY for me...

These people are even more batshit insane than the government here in the good ole USA...Thats what you get with people writing laws on subjects they have ABSOLUTELY NO knowledge about... And to think I was close to emigrating to Australia back in the early 70s, after visiting there in my youth... May saner heads prevail....

Yeah.. *right* here, right now, on /. Ghostery is blocking 7 trackers and uBlock is blocking 2 ads, DESPITE my having ads turned OFF... Ever since "slice and DICE" got their claws into this website its gone to the dogs... Oh well...

I blew out the tendons in both of my legs in July 2013 in a weird trip/fall, and went to the hospital for surgery to repair the tendons. I recieved a bill in February 2015 from the anesthesioligist for $1400, which is like 22 months AFTER the fact.. The billing was from one of those third-party physician billing companies, and their excuse for WHY it took close to 2 FUCKING years to bill me for that service??? I quote "The doctor only sent us the info in January 2015"... There should be some kind of statute of limitations on this shit, but I'm not holding my breath...