Unity did not arrive until 11.04 and I would say that the mass movement to Mint did not happen before 12.04.

I still don't understand why we would even need fast chips and premium OpenGL drivers just to run the desktop acceptably. Compositing some simple application bitmaps shouldn't require everything tuned up to the maximum. Windows is super smooth even on GMA950 and there's plenty of eye candy.

Well, to recap, the basic arguments against GNOME2 were that it significantly reduced configurability over GNOME1, that it was bloated, and that the "Applications / Places / System" menu structure felt uncomfortable. I guess one could relatively easily dig up the large Slashdot discussions where all the complaining takes place.

I hardly would call Unity "optimized". The animations are laggy as hell and it takes ages for Dash to pop up. And this comes from a guy who otherwise actually likes the user experience and graphics of Unity.

Actually there was no end to the whine about GNOME2 which Ubuntu 10.04 was based on.

Ah, you mean the DWORD WINAPI RandomFunctionEx32( LPVOID lpParam ).

Also, Windows works on all PCs with all hardware supported.

I don't think it was never proven that they specifically log keystrokes. For the W10TP they only wrote an EULA that says "all your data belongs to us".

Well, that can mean anything, but in practice, I suspect they will probably just log things like hardware profiles, performance values, app usage statistics, crash logs, things like that.

I hope they have defined properly what they mean with "trolling". By definition, trolling means writing inflammatory comments that excite people to write indignant responses. Thus, for example, bullying or threats do not technically count as trolling.

Suits me perfectly, as I wasn't trolling. Unity is the only one that offers a nice amount of eye candy and hasn't gone with a simplified flat look.

Whatever. Ubuntu Unity seems to be the only cool-looking UI left.

I would say that it's the opposite: B.Sc. is the new high school diploma. Highly recommended.

That's true. I have been experimenting a bit with setting up a Hackintosh, and it really lives up to its name: hacks after hacks. A complete nightmare, and even if you get it working, you wind up with an unstable system. Hunting third party drivers for Windows, or the little tweaks you need in Linux, start to look like child's play after that.

If you happen to find compatible hardware, setting up a Hackintosh can be a fun thing to screw around with for one weekend, but other than that, it doesn't provide much value, and is not a realistic shortcut for "a cheap Mac".