linux, ha

Basically, Windows 7 is great and there aren't super compelling features or changes that warrant an upgrade, yet. If Windows 7 sucked like Vista or ME, then there would have been more of a drive to upgrade.

It doesn't really matter though. New computers are being bought and sold all the time and the transition to 8 will continue. It certainly isn't an upgrade that has people running out to buy boxed copies, but when people decide its time for a new computer, they'll make the switch.

Android is important, desktop Linux is not.

And this is the year of desktop linux, amirite?

I don't think people are rationally examining this and are caught up in the hype.

The bulk of the steam catalog and nearly all of the AAA titles are made by companies other than Valve. A large portion of these games utilize DirectX and there is little evidence that Valve could convince companies to undertake the porting of these games to Linux. Given that most games don't run on Linux, his claim that Linux is better for gaming is fucking laughable.

Learn to read between the lines; Valve is butthurt about the Windows App Store and are throwing a temper tantrum.

Bullshit from somebody who doesn't remember correctly.

The main push for USB adoption came with the release of Windows 98, released in May of 1998.

The iMac was released in August of 1998 and although it was one of the best selling Macs of all time, it is largely insignificant compared to the hundreds of millions of Windows machines sold at the same time.

All you have to do is click on the address bar and it shows you the full path C:\foo\bar

It always has been the intention of Apple for everything you use to be apple and apple only. The iphone has given them a good environment to do this and they are taking advantage of it. If you buy into it, its your own choice, but know that this is what you are buying in to.

Macs are high quality?

And you link to the Green Party?

Thats a lot of faggotry for just one post.

What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

I can't imagine anything more sleep inducing than a podcast of a kernel mailing list. You better include a warning not to listen while driving or operating machinery.

nobody cares faggot

You don't really have much of a leg to stand on.