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Comment Re:micro studio (Score 1) 137

This is the wonderful thing. a single person with a spare bedroom is equal footing competition to a $100,000,000,000 studio.

Well, the single person with a spare bedroom and the camera also features quite prominently on a number of porn video sites.... I hear.

Comment Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 417

"Every month or two" is a myth. Update Pack 6 is LMDE 201303, Update Pack 7 was released in September and we haven't seen an update since.

Ubuntu became crap, ok, ish ;-), IMHO for making a couple of very unfortunate decisions, you mention some of them. I ran it on a number of systems for years, now I have to fiddle a little more since I am back on Debian. In the end, choice is good.

Comment Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 417

I don't do that much fiddling on LMDE, but a system for which security updates are released every once in a while is completely unacceptable. They should just call it quits. And again, what is it with the installer? What is wrong with taking/forking/whatever a very good, capable and mature installer (I am talking about debian now... ;-)) and customise it to include the mint specific stuff?

Thing is, I really like the Mint desktop stuff, but the distros are so far a joke unfortunately.

Comment Re:This is new? (Score 1) 207

If only we had places where information could be stored and searched so people who think they've figured out something new can actually look to see if it's new.

We do, it's fairly new and we call the "cloud"...

Comment Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 417

It's often easier to do a full save, a fresh install, and then restore whatever you need. My Linux Mint upgrades take about a day of work to get everything back to where I want it.

Dear Mint users, please stop calling it an upgrade when in fact you're doing a complete reinstall of the OS. I know that this idiocy is coming from the project's website ("In a "fresh" upgrade you use the liveCD of the new release to perform a new installation and to overwrite your existing partitions."), but that doesn't mean you have to use it outside the linuxmint forums.
It's only easier in case you don't use full disk encryption, which the installer still doesn't support. Why the project decided to write an installler from scratch I will never understand, and don't get me started on LMDE... ;-)

Comment Re:The summary is utter crap. (Score 3, Insightful) 324

You may be right, but that doesn't diminish the fact that this should have been a feature from the very beginning and that its removal is not a step in the right direction from the user perspective.

Oh, and yes, I don't use this OS (or any other smartphone for that matter) for precisely this reason, I can't properly contain and manage the installed software on a very privacy sensitive device.

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