I was actually easier that mucking with AV software. At least my PC ran fast for a while.

Sadly, MS has made that too difficult these days.

  I just came across this article. I wonder if there is anything to it?

> "Inflation-adjusted median income has dropped over the last five years, more people are leaving the workforce than joining it, the bulk of new job gains are part-time and millions are woefully under-employed."

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2314525-value-versus-momentum-what-should-you-buy-for-your-etf-portfolio

I am in Denver, CO. I am not seeing great improvements in employment here, or anywhere.

Microsoft, and now Cisco, are announcing huge job cuts.

Pay for IT jobs, here in Denver, is way down. Typical pay for PC techs used to be over $20 an hour, now it's usually around $16, sometimes as low as $12. Pay for CISSP certified used to over $100K a year, now it's more like $70K a year.

My wife, and I, are both unemployed, which is very unusual for us. Our friends are unemployed as well. I have one friend who used make $90K a year as a logistics manager, now he works temp jobs on assembly lines, side-by-side with people who have master's degrees in stuff like biotechnology.

Again, I am not sure where they get these stellar employment numbers, all I see is huge layoff, and declining salaries.

I wonder how many Indians work at Apple, vs Indians in general US population?

I am guessing a lot of apple employees are under 40 years of age - especially in software development.

The job app forms are created by companies like Taleos. They are absolutely awful.

I was working, in IT, for the federal government until about a year ago.

From what I saw: any special project, like that website, is going to be done by contractors, not staff employees.

IMO: there is a lot of corrupt politics involved in getting those contracts.

When working conditions are so bad that suicide is a better alternative, I would say that is a real problem.

Do you work for Red Hat? You sure sound like it.

You clearly have not been listening to actual users. Gnome3 is hated, so is Systemd.

I have two PCs on my desk right now, one is running CentOS 6.5, the other is running CentOS 7.0 - upgraded from CentOS 6.5.

IMO: CentOS 6.5 is the clear winner. No contest at all. In fact 7.0 does not even boot faster, which I thought was supposed to be it's big advantage.

It's sad, Red Hat is going backwards, just like MS. And just like MS, it will not listen to end user, it just keeps proclaiming that it's new stuff is better, and barfing out insults at anybody who offers any criticism.

If you are going to actually work with Linux professionally, you will probably have to use Red Hat.

Red Hat seems determined to force crappy, and unwanted, interface, and other technologies, on it's users. Very Microsoft like in that respect.

Gnome2 is far superior to anything based on Gnome3. And it's hard to see where Systemd is much of an improvement.

I envy home Linux users who get to have a nicer interface.

I do not think that is even close to being accurate.

System requirements for XP are 64MB RAM minimum and 128MB RAM recommended.

System requirements for Win7 are 1GB RAM minimum and 2GB RAM recommended.

People were not so "resistant to change" when MS came out with Win3, or Win95. People were lining up around the block for it.

People were not so "resistant to change" when Apple came out with the iPhone.

People are "resistant to change" when the new product is substantially worse then the old product.

XP is a 14 year old OS, that was first "replaced" 7 years ago.

Since then, MS has had four major "upgrades."

Yet, in spite of MS's greatest arm twisting efforts, 25% still hang on to XP.

These stats tell me that MS OSes have totally sucked for the last 7 years.