General rule of thumb is when a library defines their own types like string, vector, hash map, list, etc, ... run, don't walk away from it.

Seriously, WTF is wrong with just plain old STL???

Lets implement our own string class so we can be completely incompatible with everything else.

It seems like every first year CS student writes their own string and list classes (I know I did when I started).

There is no such thing as a Windows Exodus, just a bunch of windows users bitching that OMG, OMG, SOMETHING IS DIFFERENT!!! Like with every Windows version, there will lots of bitching and complaining, then eventually, they will be good little Windows users and simply accept whatever Microsoft tells them to use.

Wasn't there some legal issue where you could not use ZFS with Linux, where you are breaking the law by doing so? Couldn't Oracle or FSF, or someone else sue you for using ZFS on Linux?

Have you actually spoken with them, or just parroting what someone allegedly said? I've submitted some patches just fine.

you know this because?

I agree, Gnome 3 with the defaults sucks, WTF could they not have made tweak tool part of the control panel??? or at least default install. But just grab tweak tool and some extensions and Gnome3 is nice.

No need to 're-write' it, just use the components, and tie them together differently, basic simple javascript.

Again, you know this because?

A thousand developers all going a thousand different directions.

? One of Gnome3 biggest failures is they provide very little documentation on how to customize / modify it. Gnome3 is a actually a dammed good design and provides for immense customizability. Want it to behave like Gnome2, all you have to do is write a bit of JavaScript and glue the bits together is a Gnome2 style, thats it. I truly have no idea why the Gnome3 developers want to hide all the great work they have done. Its so easy to write themes / extension, but why do we have to install these fucking 3rd party tools like Gnome Tweak Tool, WTF is it not built into Gnome3???

There is no fucking need to waste everyones time extending Gnome2.

If these MATE clowns would have just taken a look at Gnome3, they could have made it work exactly like Gnome2 without introducing all this insane complexity of maintaining another dammed desktop.

I'm sorry, but these MATE clowns really piss me off, they could have worked with the Gnome3 developers to fix the problems with Gnome3, but instead, they go off their own way, and create duplicate dead effort.

So, how many God dammed desktops does Linux have now? do we really need so many? The look / feel of just about any of these desktops can be achieved with a custom shell built on Gnome3, much like Mint. So what does this MATE shit do for developers like me, now they expect me to support GTK3 and GTK2?? Why can't these desktop developers learn to get along or at least take a look at Gnome3 and see what you can build on it.

Sorry for this rant, but this complete and total inability to get along, work with, or at least look at what other developers are doing is so fucking ridiculous. We don't need another desktop, we just need to fix the ones we have.

KDE is about as close as you can get to a Windows clone. I know some people who use Kubuntu and seem to like it, and they are primarily Windows users.

The 4.3 vortech V6 is not bad, little over 200HP I think, which is way better than those castrated 70's 7:1 compression V8s. I think my old POS '76 Camaro with a 305 was rated around 130HP. And as you said, you would get way better milage with the 4.3 (or any other modern decent compression) motor. The 4.3 should pretty much be a bolt in swap also.

How about swapping in an LS engine out of a newish GM. You get an all aluminum block, and kick ass fuel injection. Some suspension and brake upgraded would also be nice, again off a newish GM truck.

I love the NeSTStep UI. But it has the same problem as Gnome 3, GNUStep is not a Windows 95 clone, so everyone will hate it.

The point I'm trying to make is that for the last almost 20 years, Windows 95 has been held up as the gold standard of UI, for a UI to be accepted, it evidently needs to be a clone of Windows 95. So basically thats why all these people are freaking out over Gnome 3: Gnome 3 is not a clone of Windows 95 so its bad. KDE and Gnome 2 are clones (fairly bad clones in Gnome 2's case) of Windows 95 so they are good.

No, I don't think Gnome 3 is perfect, far from it, but at least it tries to show that you do not have to clone Windows 95 to have a desktop UI.

What is the obsession with Windows 95 being the gold standard on which all desktop environments need to be based???

I for one really like Gnome 3 because it is finally no longer a Windows 95 clone like Gnome 2. I'm sorry to people whose first computer used Windows 95 or any of the other Windows 95 based desktops (like Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, KDE or Gnome 2.x), folks there are other ways to use a computer.

So, Mint took Gnome 3, and made it look like Windows 95 again, freaking great!.

Seriously, WTF would I install an app thats basically a web page to use GMail when I have the built in mail app?

I just enable IMAP on GMail, and all my computers using that account are synced perfectly. IMAP really is awesome, don't understand the need for a web based (unless I'm at a kiosk, or using some else's machine) to access email when I have a native app.

Apple has nothing to worry about. We were waiting for an iPhone 5, then after the disappointment of only the 4s announcement, we bought my wife an Samsumg galaxy 2, where she previously had a iphone 3. So, we used it for about a week, liked the larger screen, but were appalled with the low quality of the Android interface. Nothing on Android looks or works quite right. Basically, Android pretty much feels like it was coded at gunpoint. There does not seem be any attention to any details in Android, it pretty much feels like "programmer art" in games.
So, we ended up returning the Samsung, paying the $35 restocking fee, and buying an iPhone 4. It just works.

WIMP stands for "window, icon, menu, pointing device", which you have with 11.04 I think what the author is complaining about is that Unity (or Gnome3) are not what I call "windows 95" clones. We have had this disease in computing ever since Windows 95 that every interface has to look like Windows 95. Think about it, Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, KDE, Gnome 2.x were ALL essentially copies of the Windows 95 user interface. (Gnome 1.x was more of a CDE clone). All of these had some basic things like start bar and a "desktop" with files and program links. So, instead of using the term WIMP, the author should have used something like "Windows 95 based" user interface. No, I am not particularly fond of Unity, not because its different, in fact a choice between Gnome 2.x or Unity, I would choose Unity. I do however MUCH prefer Gnome 3, its much more polished, consistent, customizable (css/javascript), the workflow is well thought out, and Gnome3 does not use a unified Mac menu thats hacked onto applications that were simply not intended for a unified menu bar. I for one am ecstatic that we are finally moving away from Windows 95 being the gold standard for user interfaces.

Thats the main reason I bought an iPad-2. I read a lot of scientific papers, there is an absolutely fantastic application (Desktop + iPad sync) called Papers, http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/

Basically, papers manages all your papers, hooks up to google scholar, ACM, ..., downloads, archives and searches papers, and syncs up with the iPad version of Papers, and automatically creates a bibtex database.