You have a very interesting definition of "most popular".

MS Excel is indeed popular, but I think it's rather due to its level of polishedness rather than customizability. (Unless you consider cell formulas as customizability as well)

No, GP is arguing that the publisher should stop printing his books. Everyone else who's already bought the books can do whatever they want with the books within their legal rights. Likewise, people who've downloaded previously published HTML are free to keep it for future viewing. But they shouldn't be able to redownload it in case they accidentally cleared the cache.

An anonymous reader writes to point out...

And this reader has been crossposting in how many threads already?

Because the context here is its use as a desktop OS.

It's like you bought yourself a dock that comes with a motorboat and a bicycle. And the latter is bundled to provide "immersive" experience in the waters

And, no, giving a motorbike as an option makes no sense either.

Wait, if you don't care people adopt it on the desktop, why do you even care that Ubuntu exists? In what way does its existence harm your Linux experience?

I'm pretty sure GNOME shooting itself in the foot has nothing to do with the introduction of Unity.

Upstart did get adopted by Fedora for a while, but that's just Fedora being Fedora (even now it's replaced with homebrewn systemd). I doubt hardcore Linux users were affected; the distros they use didn't adopt them.

If there's anything you might be annoyed with, maybe it's the Eternal September effect: forums getting filled with noob questions who by people don't RTFM, or the pollution of search results of the keyword "linux" with mostly Ubuntu-centric stuff. But a simple google-fu takes care of that.

Athlon or Athlon XP? (your mark seems to be from the latter)

Indeed, this page gives the same results too. It dwarfs even the current state-of-the-art workstation class CPU, Xeon E5-2687W, which could only net 14630 CPUMarks!