This is really cool. Now when one of these filesystems becomes stable in Linux, we'll be ready to go. Look out 2025--here I come!

I had no idea you could move the menu, minimize, maximize, and close buttons back to where they were in previous releases. I've been suffering with the new system since Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks for the tip!

I'll take your word for it that the ballot has been rigged so that other parties have to waste efforts trying to get approval to appear. However, the reasoning I have used to vote for one of the two major parties goes like this:

1. Either major party X or major party Y is definitely going to win the election.
2. Both X and Y are pretty bad, but X is better than Y most of the time.
3. I'll vote for the X, the lesser of two evils.

I'm certain this is the way I make the decision. I'm pretty sure this is the way the rest of my family does it as well. When I talk to people who are disappointed by the current two party system, this is the reasoning that they articulate to me.

It's interesting to note that each poll option falls into one of two categories: something that gives other people more power over children, or something that gives children more power over the world/other people.

I wonder which category will be more popular, and which category would have been more popular had the poll question been:

"What would you have wanted your parents to install inside of you?"

The could have budgeted some money for future updates to the Linux game. Just look at what happens to most closed source/commerical Linux native games:

1. The game is released. It may run well on most contemporary systems.
2. Time passes and critical libraries break ABI compatibility. (I'm looking at you, glibc).
3. The game no longer runs on modern systems.

For good longevity, a closed source game would need some kind of ABI shim between the closed executable and the multitude of unstable open source ABIs. For most games, this shim is called "wine" and that state of affairs makes me sad.

Yes, choice, variety, and competition are horrible things aren't they?

They have real disadvantages. http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/whenchoice.html

(Yes, believe it or not, there ARE other distros; although it is hard to tell since so many stories and postings say "Ubuntu" in place of the word "Linux" or "Linux distribution")

Isn't it great? I can't wait until the days of users asking, "So I should try Linux. Which distro should I use?" and getting useless or contradictory answers are long forgotten.