None of this matters as I've switched to Linux Mint 17.1 (soon to be 17.2!) Cinnamon 64-bit edition. My Dell XPS 8700 came with Windows 8.0 which I upgraded to Windows 7. I eventually got tired of Windows fuckery and decided to wipe my entire HDD. Now, when I boot up my computer, it boots straight into Linux as a computer with a Windows-only installation would boot into Windows. No bootloader or any bullshit. Just 1TB of ext4 and a free, secure and stable OS that does everything I want. Linux takes care of itself, while you can take care of life and things that matter.

I run ad-block Plus on my Firefox. With this new built in ads, what is the point?

Maybe some more great Linux games can be made now. The last time this happened, Open Arena was one of the great games to come out. I love Open Arena and play it daily.

I have to restart my system every few days. Otherwise, memory is pretty much eaten up by memory leaks and the systems crawls.

[Insert joke containing sexual innuendo about blowing into NES cartridge here] Seriously, though, without cartridges we would have been using casettes or vinyl. Imagine Playing FF7 on 30 vinyl records. Has anyone actually successfully used vinyl to store data? I wonder how many MB one record could hold!

Didn't Slashdot just post an article about AMD praising how well it worked for Linux a few weeks ago? How ironic.

With Windows 8 faltering and 10 not here yet (and may still suck!) why, OH WHY, would Microsoft do this? Windows 7 is all they've got. That's the only good OS. And they halfway kill it this week. *sigh* Back to my Linux installation. I ditched Windows last year.

I'm a bit Rusty on the subject. Pardon?

I run Linux Mint 17.1 and tried using the AMD driver for my AMD Radeon 7570. It caused a huge memory leak. I am again using the X.org drivers. They don't perform as well for 3D but it's all that's available to me. I am bummed out, too. The AMD drivers looked promising and I was getting much improved frame rates in Nexuiz. Like, from 20FPS to 65FPS kind of improvement. I really wish that memory leak would get fixed.

How about Microsoft Linux? http://www.mslinux.org/ They even have Linux Genuine Advantage in place already :) http://www.linuxgenuineadvanta...

Those were different circumstances. Hiltler was in the public eye as enemy number one. North Korea is kind of like a joke.

Hahahaha! That made my morning!

Just keep everything on your hard drive on a computer that is *not* connected to the Internet.