The only reason Bing has 12.5% of the market is because it is the default search engine for any MS-based product, including (especially) its cell phones. Most people switch to Google as quickly as possible, but some just keep the defaults.
I doubt Windows Phone has a market share big enough to make a dent. More likely Siri from iOS.
Good for them but I highly doubt the phrase "Yahoo it" will catch on.
Why shoukd it? Search is not Yahoo's primary product. The web portal is.
No. There's really no benefit. Your personal browser fingerprint can identify you, so what does it matter?
Browser fingerbrinting relies on stuff like installed fonts, screen resolution, etc. – i.e. things not tweakable on many mobile platforms.
Used to.
No.
What's been removed,dumbed down,made incompatible?
You know this is a release of the Frameworks, right?
Nothing has been dumbed down, kde3support is gone but other than that KF5 is mostly source-compatible with kdelibs4.
Can't say I ever experienced those issues. No idea which distro and which DE you used.
I've been testing out various distros since 1998, and that's been my experience all the way back: to run at the same clip as the concurrent Windows, linux (at least with the desktops of equivalent competence and featureset) needs about 3x the hardware under it.
Clip? What clip?
Are you referring to some internet video played using Flash? Flash under Linux is about as crappy as Flash under OSX. Officially Flash under Linux supports some form of video acceleration but I never saw it work properly. Luckily the world is moving to HTML5 video.
For a while AMD tried pushing their own video acceleration technology under Linux. AFAIK nothing noteworthy ever supported that. Luckily at least their open source drivers started supporting VDPAU, originally invented by NVidia. AMD's proprietary Catalyst drivers do not support VDPAU natively and require a small wrapper library.
I still use KDE 3.5.10, the sanest, the most customizable, and the most convenient KDE that has ever existed.
If a majority of people shared your opinion, the Trinity Desktop wasn't a project of only a handful of devs. http://trinitydesktop.org/cont...
Unfortunately, Windows 7 turns out to be much more stable, consistent, faster and more productive in every way compared to the mess of Gnome, Unity etc encountered these days with Ubuntu.
Duh. Canonical has very few resources to throw behind actual maintenance. Red Hat is the company to go for commercial-grade stability and support.
Intel has probably spent an order of magnitude more engineering time in optimizing its Windows display drivers specifically for smooth motion under Aero.
Intel writes two completely different drivers. Their Windows driver shares zero code with Linux's. Therefore there are use cases in which Linux performs better and others where Windows is better.
Linux is also inherently more difficult to optimize for because it is far more diverse. This isn't a problem for more powerful CPUs and graphics cards, but those with less powerful devices are going to feel some pain.
If what you wrote were true, NT kernel-based Windows Phone 8 would easily run on hardware Linux (Maemo, MeeGo, low-end Android) runs.
Please skip making a 3.11 version... just to avoid another flood of ".. for Workgroups" jokes.
Uneven version numbers are development releases. It's never been any different in Gnome.
Amarok never recovered after 2.0.
If Amarok was so bad, why is it so popular?
According to https://www.ohloh.net/p/amarok it has a rating of 4.5/5.0 and "High Activity" with 56 current contributors (400 overall; not even counting translations as they are in another repo (SVN not git)). That's a lot for only a music player.
I guess I wasn't clear. I've had "-semantic-desktop" set globally (in make.conf) all along. I dumped Amarok when it started insisting it wanted kedlibs(+semantic-desktop), and nepomuk (which I refuse to install) as well.
That's broken packaging on Gentoo's side. File a Gentoo bug report.
Yet another example how socialism fails.
You have a weird definition of socialism.
If Fedora "isn't stable enough for anything other then the desktop" then it's not stable enough for the desktop, either. I don't want free reboots on my desktop box while I'm trying to use it.
From my experience Fedora is about as stable as most Ubuntu releases with the distinct difference that Fedora actually gets updated throughout it life time.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
