Comment Re:Pointless (Score 1) 755
You should be ashamed of yourself. No, really.
You should be ashamed of yourself. No, really.
I've been running Linux on laptops without much trouble for about 10 years. Mostly Acers. I didn't realise that made me an outlier.
I really don't see what all the fuss is about--Poettering has merely done for Linux what Monty Widenius did for relational databases. And we all agree that was a good thing, right?
Sweatshop? Dante had the right idea. Ultima Thule, baby--that's the genuine article.
The heat and lights come on when I'm walking up to the porch.
Those are things that I do already with a couple of 3-dollar timers from my local hardware store.
Your point stands, but are you aware of Classic Theme Restorer extension? It undoes most of the australis idiocy.
Indeed I am.
And I have it installed. While I still can, it seems.
I know two people back in the States who caught polio before the vaccine against it became widely available in the rural areas where they grew up.
Each of these guys has one arm that looks perfectly normal, and one that looks like it quit growing when he was a kid.
You might feel differently, but I'm mighty glad my folks got me vaccinated.
(7) Documentation that doesn't have to change over time
As one of the maintainers of the docs for a commercially-supported Open Source product, I'd like to inform you that this is one of the funniest things I've read all week.
This is an OpenSUSE 13.2 system I'm using, and it definitely has a
Eh? My Linux machines have been auto-mounting USB storage devices without issue for about ten years now.
Burn the witch!
She turned me into a newt!
But I got better.
I happen to run both of those, and I've never had any boot/reboot issues with either one.
Still don't like systemd very much, though.
It's not just Gnome3 and systemd--it's the Gnome3/systemd "we know what you want better than you do" mindset that is troubling.
My point being that this shouldn't be a requirement, hello?
Just because you can't think of other use cases for extensions doesn't mean there aren't any.
Happiness is twin floppies.