Yeah, getting rid of XUL is sad times. I'm still hoping it won't happen -- there's been a pretty major developer backlash about that one.
(Obviously, when I said "get rid of the bloat", I meant only the bloat that wasn't useful to me
While I agree Pocket is pointless, was it really bloating up the codebase that much? Genuinely curious
They keep copying Chrome anyway so what’s the point of using a bloated browser that tries to mimic Chrome?
For me, it's the amazing Tree Style Tab extension that keeps me on Firefox more than anything else. Chrome seems to have no intention to ever implement this.
As for getting rid of theme support
Interesting! Maybe it's worth trying to get someone out to our place, too. I've long suspected that the quality of the copper wiring in the UK is pretty shoddy, but hadn't realised that BT would actually do something about it!
Hmmm
"Rights" aren't something given by a government, they are something we all have, simply by existing.
... as determined by
The UN universal declaration of human rights would be as close as you're going to get to consensus. But I'm afraid the right to bear arms didn't make the cut.
Yeah, it's annoying that the only >1920x1080 options for the Dell XPSes are the touchscreen options. On the plus side, though, by buying the lower-res screens you apparently gain massively in battery life.
What kind of power-work do you need to do on-the-go that 1. needs more than 16G of RAM, and 2. can actually get some work done on before your batteries are drained.
Can't speak for the OP, but some of the bioinformatics analyses I do would fit into that category. The battery life on these things is pretty good (Dell claims "up to 17 hours") so I'd guess even with all cores running at full speed you'd have a bit of time to do stuff.
It seems a bit crazy that you can't get a 32Gb equipped laptop at least as a high-end option.
I think if Dell or Asus would release a high end laptop with a matte screen option for say $300 extra on top of the regular price, they would probably find a nice niche market.
They already do. Dell's XPS 13 (non-touch) is in fact a matte screen (IPS, 1920x1080, and one of the best I've seen). I'd assume that the non-touch version of this XPS 15 laptop will also be a matte screen (but you'd want to check this). (Having a touch screen obviously requires a glossy overlay for the digitiser, so you'll always be limited to the non-touch variants.)
It looks like a standard US keyboard's enter to me or were they retarded enough to put that small enter on non-US layouts as well?
It's a standard US layout. The source of confusion is that the UK has it's own, rather special layout in which enter is a 180-rotated L shape that is smushed to the very far right of the keyboard.
I've been living in the UK for nearly four years, and the UK layout really drives me nuts (even with the software layout switched back to US, the physical key shapes mean that enter often requires a physical hand movement to reach and I find the shift keys are way too small -- it's not optimum for touch typing!)
The single best feature of Ubuntu is apt-get and that's something that Ubuntu stole from Debian.
I'm pretty sure apt was and still is GPL'd open source. Quite how that amounts to "stealing" is beyond me
he's probably talking about other distros like Red Hat
Heh, RH 7.0, anyone? Probably the most upsetting distro experience ever, and one that turned me off RedHat for life.
Meh.
Ubuntu was always little more than Debian with a few tweaks. They are a little bit more "desktop centric" but that about it. This persistent myth that Ubuntu was the first distribution to be "easy" is just bullshit. Most of what Ubuntu interesting was cribbed wholesale from Debian.
"easy" != "interesting". What made Ubuntu popular was that it was all the Debian goodness of apt, combined with all the useful goodness of software that wasn't three years out of date, and a mature, elegant theme wrapping the whole thing up. To me, Ubuntu has been the only distro I could recommend to newbies without any doubt that everything would work, and work well. And these days, when I no longer have time to build everything by hand, Ubuntu is the OS that gets out of the way and just lets me do my work.
I don't think Ubuntu would ever demure on the debt they owe Debian. But if you think the Debian installer had anything on Ubuntu's installer back in Warty Warthog days, you're kidding yourself. It was way easier to install, and that in and of itself was probably the reason for its popularity. (And, you know, up-to-date software. Stable Debian releases
(I suspect that ease of install has always been a prime mover in distro popularity -- before Ubuntu, I seem to recall it was Mandrake that was the easiest to install and top-of-the-pops.)
For desktops or laptops? GNU/Linux seems to support desktop hardware fine, but lately, Windows supports small (10.1" or 11.6") laptop hardware better. I've been having trouble finding an 11.6 inch or smaller laptop that works well with GNU/Linux.*
You mentioned chromebooks with crouton, but I've got perfect hardware support for two chromebooks (Dell Chromebook 11 and Toshiba Chromebook 2 13") running Ubuntu natively (no useless ChromeOS is present on either chromebook). (The great John Lewis has a simple script to rewrite the bios and bootloader; I highly recommend it). Hardware support was flaky a year ago, but since 15.04 it's been pretty much native support out of the box (the only exception being the Toshiba's microphone, which should be fixed in 15.10 with kernel 4.2).
The end result is a very cheap, light and functional linux laptop. I'd especially recommend the Chromebook 2 -- the screen on that thing is amazing.
I prefer Windows 10. It fully supports any hardware and it offers free updates. It's rock solid and all my software just works. The amount of time horsing around with teh OS I've saved would pay the cost of the OS 50x over.
That's funny -- I prefer Ubuntu. It fully supports any hardware and it offers free updates. It's rock solid and all my software just works. The amount of time horsing around with teh OS I've saved would pay the cost of the OS 50x over.
It's clear that you're a time traveller from 2002, so you may not realise that everything "just works" under linux these days too.
I know, it's crazy. Welcome to the future.
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