Atoms are doing just fine. But you have to remember that we are talking computers here. No matter what you say about them someone will come by with anecdotal evidence that prove otherwise. Like *their* 128 kbps MP3's sound way better than FLAC and so on. It is a lost cause defending stuff like this here.

Do you dictate that for everyone or am I perhaps allowed to choose for myself what device best suit me? I would rather use ChromeOS for that then a crappy phone (no, iphones are not "smart" when used for non-phone/computer stuff no matter what apple says) and who would want to buy a Wii to browse the web while playing on your Xbox or Playstation and then have to either have two TV's or switch channels back and forth? Saying there is no market for ChromeOS is like saying there is no market for a underpowered console like the Wii. I own a laptop but I never use it to browse or anything like that. It is a "Take with me when I fix computers for others-device". Why would I want to boot a slow laptop when my multi-core PC is in the same room and even boots faster? Yes, there IS a place for a small device used only for browsing and other web applications IF it does not come with a screen as small as a tiny phone who dreams of one day becoming a PC (Well, a MAC actually).

What?! Gimp in Arch is dependent on Pacman?

Reading this actually makes me think Arch users does not have a clue. What is your point?

Everyone knows that is a Windows feature. Not a GIMP bug ;-)

Picture or it didn't happen.

I have 100 % failure rate on my machines. Or rather problems that needed to be fixed manually afterwards. Numbers from such a small source is worth nothing. Read the forums. They tell a different story.

Yes it would seem so but running update-grub does not add the new kernel for many users for some reason. Check in the forum. They would either have to delete the file and get a new one created or add the new kernel manually.

A tiny minority?? Unlike me it seems you haven't been helping out the masses on the forums.

No, what Canonical is doing is releasing stable releases comparable and competing with Microsoft and Apple and then providing long time support like Debian om their LTS releases. Unfortunately the non-LTS releases is more like unstable or testing. I have been using Ubuntu on and off since Ubuntu 6 (Dapper Drake) and with every release the feel of being a beta tester have gotten worse and worse. This time I really think they have shot themselves in the foot by releasing Karmic with the new GRUB which is not only a beta version but also had known problems before they released it. Many who dual boot installs Windows on the primary drive sine that is what Windows like best and then change the drive with Ubuntu (and GRUB) to being primary drive afterwards. This causes GRUB to take from ~1 minute to load the menu (56 seconds and up in my case). Users in the forum report up to 3 minutes load time. Also it seems many in the forum agree that Ubuntu can no longer be upgraded and is comparable to Windows in that area forcing users to reinstall. I my opinion Ubuntu is a great distro but it is in no way a beginners distro. Beginners should stay one or even two releases behind the release schedule if they want to be sure to have sound, video and a reasonable performance.

Didn't your mother teach you not to lie? That was NOT what he wrote:

Nice going mods! Veeery informative...

So you snail-mail the commands to the PC then?

I don't know where the "here" in "PS3 is an oddity here" is but in Scandinavia where I live the stats says that the PS3 has sold better than the PS2 in the same timespan after release. And that is even with the competition of the Xbox 360 and the Wii. So maybe the PS3 is in trouble worldwide (citation please?) but surely not everywhere.