I also find the user experience of Unity to be quite comfortable. And it does not constantly reinvent itself, so things are found from same places, version after version. As a bonus, in the midst of the flat and bland look of new desktops, Unity still looks cool.

Scripts break easily and are slow to execute.

It's not that odd actually. Smartphones are little computers with which people do a lot of things. It's not that obvious anymore that calling is the main feature.

Yep, that's true. There simply seems not to be an "iowait" class for a process, Windows just puts the process in an idle state. However the Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe) can (among other neat data) show disk latency counters, which allows you to find out total time spent for I/O operations on a specific device.

Seeing how fast the PC industry develops, if his prediction lasted 6 years, I'd say that's still pretty good.

No, it's not a distro. Linux from Scratch is a set of instructions to help you put together a Linux-based OS completely ground-up.

I once reheated some dumplings and saw an interesting phenomenon: the food quickly became extremely crusty and all the moisture got effectively sucked out to the inner walls of the microwave oven. Why did this happen?

I have sometimes said that the torrent file (or magnet link) is a virtualization of the actual data files, kind of a seed which you plant and from which the data grows. Even when the torrent does not contain the actual data files, you "see" the files through the torrent.

I challenge you to show me an old Slashdot article and its discussion that represents what you mean with "good old times". They are all archived. I have occasionally read them again. There is about the same amount of trash-talk and sophisticated comments as we have here today. The only clear difference is that back then there was a lot more mod points in circulation.

I have a particular plan which involves some unnamed hardware and software. I won't go into details, but let's just say that everything of it is implemented through some specific steps. It allows the users to leverage various possibilities. Maybe this could be the solution?

Indeed. It would be even worse if they did not have those jobs, but the bad working conditions and low pay are still a problem. I wonder if some kind of fair trade system could be developed for electronics, just like we have for food products?

What I have sometimes pondered is why Google has not become its own hard disk drive manufacturer. Would it be feasible? I believe they continuously chuck in crazy amounts of storage into their data centers and make massive HDD orders.

The article precisely says this:

UPDATE: As I’ve seen in some discussions of my post on the Internet (not the comments here) that people apparently thought the screenshot represented the next KMail desktop UI, I’ve updated the screenshot and the caption to make clear what it is.

Yep. Some other classic ones:

- "Your distro is configured wrong for KDE."
- "Everyone knows how broken KDE is. That's why I switched to Linux Mint and haven't looked back."
- "I have never had that kind of problems and I have used Linux on desktop since 1997."
- "How much does Microsoft pay you to write that?"