I can ignore ads on the "new tabs" page. I'm more concerned about the "share" garbage they want to add to the context menu: https://bug1000513.bugzilla.mo...

I've read a bit through the threads and think that the reason it took so long was because they decided to remove a feature to fix the problem:

The git commit message states the same. There were really some problems in that function: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc...

I chose the word scepticism, and still I think it is. I agree that the word "unexploitable" was a bit exaggerated, but that was added by unknown lamer.

Florian Weimer said:

Its however true that he corrects himself the same day a bit later:

You can still raid several larger drives. The advantage: you can have full mirroring, and large storage space. I welcome the technological advancement, but still I've only occupied 50% of my 1.5 TB HDD, and I must note that I've copies of the kernel source, and mozilla-central.

We don't know which of them is the closest one, or has an atmosphere that can be terraformed easily. Even if we had FTL travel or at least > .1c capable ships, we probably wanted to choose the most suitable candidate before investing trillions of dollars.

We need telescopes, on and around earth. lots of them. Kepler has only scanned a small region of the sky.

X.org people themselfes admit wayland is better. X.org consists of lots of bloated stuff from the 1980s, where all modern support (OpenGL, you name it) is patched in through "extensions". Network transparency in X is also a big problem, there is the choice between using 1980s APIs and shuffling pixels around. X is broken. Do you see any disadvantages of wayland?

All browser plugins are unmitigated disasters.

... and Linux didn't regard binary compatibility (I actually like that), so that you always need to have the source around?

OK, you convinced me, they didn't waste them in that particular release. But still I'm against too frequent redesigns: they make the life of those harder, who aren't too comfortable with computers and don't use it by understanding the labels, but by memorizing "clickpaths": lower left corner of the screen, third entry, second entry, in the window the icon with the computer screen, and so on.
Unfortunately these people are the majority.

OK, that's a point where KDE 4.0 got better, but still no multitouch gestures. I've tried to scroll or pitch on my KDE 4.13 netbook, and it didn't work, while it is advertised that my touchscreen supports up to 10 distinct points.

You have forgotten the worst illness of all. Homo Sapiens. Its a parasite when it lives in its home, and tries not to destroy it. Its an illness when it lives without even caring for anything except for itself, not even recognizing the long term disadvantage it can endure by heavily damaging its host. Lets hope the illness becomes a parasite, and don't kill itself by phenomena called "third world war".

True, its too hard for most new open source software to become accepted by debian. I like it rather this way than the microsoft app store way: full of scamware. That doesn't mean I like it the way it is right now. I agree think that desktop linux is only something for geeks and the only-mail-and-internet grandma. Still I use kubuntu.

KDE shouldn't waste their resources to redesign with every release, but they should rather work on exposing more system features through the GUI, and make it more stable. The average user shouldn't need to use the console.

Actually, its set in {La,}Tex: https://github.com/cplusplus/d...