An anonymous reader writes to point out...
And this reader has been crossposting in how many threads already?
Because the context here is its use as a desktop OS.
It's like you bought yourself a dock that comes with a motorboat and a bicycle. And the latter is bundled to provide "immersive" experience in the waters
And, no, giving a motorbike as an option makes no sense either.
Wait, if you don't care people adopt it on the desktop, why do you even care that Ubuntu exists? In what way does its existence harm your Linux experience?
I'm pretty sure GNOME shooting itself in the foot has nothing to do with the introduction of Unity.
Upstart did get adopted by Fedora for a while, but that's just Fedora being Fedora (even now it's replaced with homebrewn systemd). I doubt hardcore Linux users were affected; the distros they use didn't adopt them.
If there's anything you might be annoyed with, maybe it's the Eternal September effect: forums getting filled with noob questions who by people don't RTFM, or the pollution of search results of the keyword "linux" with mostly Ubuntu-centric stuff. But a simple google-fu takes care of that.
BULLSHIT.
An Athlon 2400+ has a CPUMark of 357.
Athlon or Athlon XP? (your mark seems to be from the latter)
An A7 (iPhone 5S) has a CPUMark of 35274.
You workstation is slow by any standard. Modern SoCs are much faster than you imagine. Even your Geforce 4 is so abysmal slow compared to modern mobile GPU that you assertion is simply laughable.
Welcome to reality. Phones annihilate you ancient workstation and blow it in the middle of next week.
Indeed, this page gives the same results too. It dwarfs even the current state-of-the-art workstation class CPU, Xeon E5-2687W, which could only net 14630 CPUMarks!
"heat up a spoon with duck tape around the handle then put it in cold water"
I wanted to call out on that, but then found it the thing actually exists.
But what's so special about this tape compared to a generic unbranded one, that you chose it particularly for this prank?
what are they hiding.
Patent infringements, perhaps.
Killer app here refers to "killer appliance", an appliance which you can't do without that necessitates people to find, or produce, more people just to put it on. (I'm just following Wikipedia's definition)
This is a game changer for countries with falling birth rates, like Japan.
"When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest." -- Bullwinkle Moose