Just set the Evil Bit, yeesh.

Man who shoots self in foot is doer, not hater.
Man who talks about shooting self in foot but doesn't comes away happier.

For one specific guy's case. The only problem I've ever had with Ubuntu/Mint audio before I started halfassedly tinkering with it was that Ubuntu didn't disable the speakers when you plugged in headphones for like 6 releases in a row. Other than that, smooth sailing.

Random data point is random

Does Ubuntu do it any better? (I'm not even going to ask about Debian.) When I tried to upgrade my last Xubuntu install, it hosed my graphics driver somehow. I was rather surprised as before that I can't remember having any trouble with dist-upgrades.

Oh, and apparently they still have that bug where if I launch Firefox from the LiveCD, it kills my graphics, too. When I was putting the fresh (Mint) install on after the above, that happened. And for some brilliant reason the bootloader gets written at the END of the installation. Oh, and they redesigned GRUB a few years back to make it basically impossible to boot from outside as far as I can tell.

*goes off and bangs head against the wall*

Being able to successfully boot your machine tends to be important to being productive.

I seem to remember quite a lot of shouting when OOXML was being pushed out, at least around here.

"Those who do not know UNIX are doomed to reimplement it, poorly."

Yeah, I'm an XFCE guy myself ever since Unity, but anything that depends on GNOME (e.g. GIMP) may be problematic.

Yeah, and then GNOME (and anything else that depends on it) won't work. Try to keep up.

Personally, I dislike them because my normal instinct to look in straight lines in front of, behind, and to either side laterally of me doesn't work in them. All the roundabouts I've been in have a tight enough diameter that it's not possible to see any appreciable distance in front of or behind you to give you time to react to all the drivers who often don't know how to handle them (we should have a PSA or something...). God knows what speed anybody in a roundabout will be going.

And dual-lanes make it twice as bad because add to that people who might be treating the lanes erratically. I was sideswiped once while completely minding my own business in my lane and everyone where I live seems to love to keep one tire on the lane markings, so I'm very jumpy about lane issues.

Supposedly there's research that shows traffic circles are safer, but everyone I've ever talked to hates them. And I'm especially suspicious of dual-lane circles as they seem like an accident waiting to happen as most drivers don't know what the rules of them are.

I guess you're supposed to take the inner lane if you're skipping exits? Which only really works if the circle is a minimum diameter that you're staying in it for an appreciable amount of time.

Read a sampling of the comments on literally any SystemD-related article to find out the details. It blows my mind that people are still posting "lol i have no idea u open sourc guys r dum" when all they have to do is scroll up or down like one screenlength.

Because especially in programming, "old" does not necessarily equal "broken." "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." And especially don't fix it with something that breaks half the rest of the product as a whole...while kind of failing to actually provide any benefits.

Except Wayland is still optional. You don't ram the new software into the working ecosystem and then fix it.

Joke's on you--next they'll merge vi into systemd.

OH GOD IT BURNSSSS

Ah. Thanks for the information; I was trying to figure out how hot-swapping a CPU made any sense and failing.