Yes, but keep in mind your household essentially has a Linux system administrator. I'm guessing you probably maintain some sort of home network, handle setup tasks, and solve any issues that come up, correct?
Take yourself out of the equation, and substitute a different household with the equivalent skills/interests of your wife, who actually sounds more like a typical user than you. Can you see Linux working in that situation?
Most people need to be able to run anything they find without worrying if it will work.
And most people just need a web browser. As long as it plays YouTube videos and opens Gmail, most people are satisfied.
Linux won't EVER be a mainstream desktop OS because it doesn't run most of the software people need.
You think "most people" need CAD, Adobe apps, MS Office, financial software, medical software or supply chain software?
Most people need a web browser.
You've stated what I *intended* to convey more clearly than I did.
Slashdot has ads????
Yes, every story about autonomous cars.
They should have named it "Code Sweat" and used this music as the theme song:
"I wake up...in a Code Sweat. Hah!"
Maceo, blow your horn.
Linux: I tend to prefer when I need to be very productive
When I want to be very productive, I step away from the computer.
Bind has been rewritten practically from scratch multiple times. This has strangely not helped security as much as one would hope...
To be fair, at least they are mostly DoS bugs, not root-in-one-packet like in the good old days. At least we hope they are.
Yeah, but it was more fun to make a snarky anti-Flash comment and link to an xkcd video that insulted beer (heresy, I know).
I did watch some video on their site, and it was quite beautiful. It's very impressive what commercial equipment can do.
Oh, and tally another vote for changing their name, stat.
Client-side end-to-end encryption using perfect forward secrecy is the only thing we can "trust" now, sadly. Key escrow? Who gives a crap? Our government has destroyed all reasonable expectation of trust or privacy, and it's not like private corporations can't be compelled to cooperate. The problem is, it's not really feasible to vet source code for the vast majority of people, even for open source projects, since it's a highly specialized skill set. And how do we ensure that an update doesn't come along specifically to open up an exploit or a back door? Essentially, we're now in a position of trying to decide which projects we can trust with our privacy.
I used to snicker at people who thought like this, maybe throwing in a "tinfoil hat" joke here and there. Damn... it's not quite at the level of CIA implanted brain bugs, or thought-controlling water additives, but the government is getting damn creepy with it's mass surveillance.
Oops, guess this content isn't for me then. I uninstalled Flash years ago.
Instead, I'll just share my thoughts on beer.
I think they meant to say either Win95 or Win9x.
Incidentally, Windows 7 shows live taskbar previews of all windows equally well, not just specific windows. I presume this is because the default theme (Aero) is hardware accelerated. Perhaps it's only limited to specific windows if you disable hardware acceleration.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
