So you missed gOS then?

I used gOS to introduce my wife to the idea that she could use Linux instead of Windows. E17 (or 16.999) has been pretty and useful for a long time.
I use E17 on Arch Linux and most of the major updates don't break things enough to be a problem. I've lost a few utilities (screen cap) but there has always been a replacement easily available. Often built in, but with a new name.

I don't like Starter Linux any more than the rest of the bearded ones here, but if you are having trouble hibernating/sleeping in Linux, try running up their live CD and see if it works out of the box on there.
You might find that more systems do support it than you thought.

It's OK "Steve" we understand.
With a UID as low as yours it must be time for your nap and for all us damn kids to get off your lawn.

In case of uncertainty; this was intended to be +1 funny, not -1 asshole.

Please, don't.

I have just run a Raspberry Jam (albeit a little one) because I believe in this Foundation and their stated aims, but I cannot abide SONY and their company ethos vis a vis customer respect and DRM.

If I could I'd buy RasPis that had been made somewhere else. Both of mine came from China, but the one that I got for a friend came from SONY. As will my next one, unfortunately.

Shitty SONY. Bad SONY. May everything you touch (aside from RasPis) turn to sand in your clutches.

It ain't $50. It's $50 plus the cost of a Windows license.

Last I heard (unverified unchecked fact coming up) you could send off for a rebate of $20 for not wanting to use a preinstalled MSFT OS.

That means they are double dipping on this and that's just annoying.
They could have asked a community member to make the OS perfect out of the box and they would have done it for love. Gouging Linux users like this is right out of order. It's not about the money, it's the fact they are Doing It Wrong.

Aircrack-ng.

Although whenever I open it I do tend to tap my mouse on my monitor and say "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good".

I'm Spartacus!

Actually, I'm PReDiToR, but you know what I mean.

I used to advocate that service too, but these days I have trouble finding a working login for the sites that I don't want to hand over my details to.

I can't give you any examples, just in case you ask. So take this as anecdotal. However, I stand by my comment. In the last 2-3 years I've found it 90% non working.

A good idea, but IP logging defeats it too easily. Or whatever it is sites use.

Get an old version then.

Skype has been too integrated and full of crap and ads for a while now.

My cable comes in through the guest room so the modem is in there. There is a Cat5e going under the floorboards to the office, where it connects to my RT-N56U. My downstairs laptop station where I do playing, movies, testing has my old WRT54G (with Raspberry Pi inside) connected over WiFi as a bridge. I can plug people's crap into that without the hassle of putting my 63 character key into their devices.
Very useful, I've found.

Thank you for your informed (and patient) reply.

I've only really attempted to remove them from the systems (openSUSE mostly), not disable them. I'll bookmark your info for later use.

I run E17 (nearly) on my laptop and it works fine under Arch.
Features appear and are removed from the SVN with distasteful regularity, but my config gets a small tweak and all the functionality is back and looking great.

Dolphin I will agree is a great program. Apart from the inability to surgically remove it from the rest of the KDE junk. Don't get me wrong, I like KDE, I used KDE 3.5 for a long time on Gentoo after 4.x was out, but Strigi, Nepomuk and a whole boatload of other undesirable bloat turns me right off. It is just so hard to pare down KDE programs in the same way it's hard to remove Gnome bloat from their useful items. KIOslaves aren't useful to me, neither is Konqueror.

I consider it a no-win scenario. You can't have a hybrid system without having the worst of both worlds.
E17 with Qt and GTK (2 AND 3!) nomming up resources is the only way for me to be happy.

So I bought a decent PC with RAM and cycles to spare. Headache over. My EEE PC (4G SSD, 512MB) can carry on running LXDE, my laptop can run teh pretty and I can use KDE and Gnome apps when I think they're the right tool for the job.

This is my usage scenario, YMMV. Linux is about choice and sometimes there isn't a perfect choice for everyone. Id rather love the freedom to be unhappy rather than have Stockholm Syndrome set in and tell people how much I love Win 7.

You mean vote the other party in who are lobbied by the same groups, but with different coloured ties?

Doesn't work. You'd have to clean out the whole of Westminster/Washington of lobbyists before you could get some clean politicians installed.

Never happen.

Yeah, you would.

There are several variations of the old "your call" scenario though.

He's not the guy that dresses in a red and white suit and comes in December.