You could always press the Super/"windows" key or whatever itls labelled on your keyboard. Gets you to the overview without needing to lift your hands off the keyboard - pretty much everything in gnome-shell can be done with keyboard shortcuts, often the same shortcuts that worked in Gnome 2 (ctrl-alt-up/down arrow to switch workspaces for example).

To launch an application, I press Super, type the first few letters of the program name (or what it does, like "mail", which gets me Thunderbird), hit Enter and go. Much quicker than the Gnome 2/Windows way of clicking Applications, mousing down to the correct submenu, and selecting from there.

You mean you never worked out how to unmaximise a window in Gnome 3? It's the opposite of maximising - drag the title bar to the top of the screen and the window will snap to maximised, drag the window away from the top and it will snap back to its previous size. It's really simple and actually discoverable, unlike some other things in Gnome 3.

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
"Window maximizing and tiling: You can maximize a window by dragging it to the top edge of the screen. Alternatively, you can double-click the window title. To unmaximize, pull it down again. By dragging windows to the left and right edges of the screen you can tile them side by side. "

But everybody knows that the appereciation of bebop is much enhanced by a nice spliff, and the late Beethoven string quartets are amazing on acid.

So you don't like Steve Reich much either? Some of the best techno relies on the effect that even the smallest variations to the sound can have. The repetition is the substrate from which the music builds.

I used to be a drummer (spent my youth playing everything from orchestral percussion through jazz to punk and metal) and I love techno,drum n bass, dubstep etc. The rigid machine beat is part of the appeal - it's what gives those styles their distinct characters in the same way that the crotchet-swung quaver ride and hi-hat offbeat makes swing.

There's shitty music in every genre, but musical talent will always shine through no matter whether it's acoustic instruments being played or software ones. Ignore the mass-market entertainment corporation shite, and there's a lot of extremely interesting electronic music being made - check out Clark, Rusty, Apparat, Plastikman, etc.

But yes, SAW produced some abominations, and Cowell is merely taking their business model to its logical conclusion.

Sorry, got the wrong end of the stick there. Stupid limited-bandwidth text interface. :)

I've never had a problem with it either. I also quite like Gnome 3, systemd, etc. Satisfied people are less likely to make a song and dance about their experiences though, so the moaning always dominates.

This is exactly the reason why nobody in the world is ever a passenger in a car, bus, plane, train, or boat.

Why does it have to be mitigated at 65mph? Are your toddlers holding the steering wheel and brake pedal, preventing you from pulling over to sort out the problem?

Child-proof seat buckles are available if getting out of the seat is a recurring issue.

No, Viz is the Beano for grown-ups. The Sun is a comic for children who happen to be chronologically adult.

This is exactly why the ribbon is a good idea, for Microsoft at least. Why make it easy to switch away from MS products? Anything that increases vendor lock-in is good for MS.

In Soviet Russia, my trusty old Nokia is running Debian derivative!

Not the government. The school. I doubt the teachers illegally spying on their students were sending the video stream to the department for education (or whatever the local equivalent is).

Do you mean the 1990s BBC adaptation with Colin Firth? Mr Darcy coming out of the pond with his shirt all wet was a defining moment in the sexual development of many female Brits born in the late 70s/early 80s.

Fair enough.

The real WTF was that you have an OS/software combination that (intentionally) refuses to do what you ask of it (ie "play this media"), and thus forces you to go out of your way to find an illicit rip from the Internet. Yet another example that shows that DRM is definitely not made with the customer's best intentions in mind.