More importantly, slashdot.jp can handle it too. It's probably trivial to port the code across - I'm surprised no one has done it.

Their APU lines are pretty nice. Their FX line was great 3 years ago (much better performance/price ratio than Intel), but it hasn't gotten any significant upgrades since then.

The file command (which uses /etc/magic) works fine, but the mimetype command will defer to the file extension unless the --magic-only flag is passed. Most DEs use the mimetype command, since the output is easier to work with.

Perhaps, but I suspect Intel could more than balance it out by adding a few developers to the Lima project.

It's not an either-or. I use FB for keeping up with friends and family (i.e. people I know in real life), but G+ is a far better platform for following hobbyist groups (e.g. distro pages) and celebrities (e.g. Linus Torvalds), because it allows non-reciprocal connections. That is, I can follow Torvalds' public posts without him needing to follow me.

Which means that the most useful data points are the projects which went through the effort of migrating between libraries. e.g. Subsurface which moved from GTK+ to Qt, and written by Linus Torvalds (among others). The reasons for doing so are given here. This is particularly interesting given that both Linus and Dirk prefer C

In my experience, the Qt libraries and tools are just as easy to use as .NET Framework + Visual Studio, which I think is excellent (and particularly impressive, given that Qt definitely doesn't have the same resources as Microsoft). I haven't used GTK+, but looking at the Hello World tutorial for it, it doesn't seem particularly intuitive. (e.g. why is the button label set with a callback?) Admittedly, there is some bias due to familiarity here, but I think my point is valid.

Github provides (private) hosting for proprietary projects, for a price. My guess is they didn't realise the gist wasn't protected similarly.

Easy way to find out: Mega could file a tortious inteference suit, and subpoena Paypal for the details. If it was one of the major processors, it'll be revealed and they can avail themselves of damages. If it was an NSL, that will become apparent too.

There were politics back then too, it's just that the money was in different industries.

Two words: survivorship bias

I'm not sure if it's the same study, but the 25-hour rhythm is addressed in the article:

Yes, dumb users are unable to exercise choices meaningfully, especially if they are unaware they even have a choice. But that doesn't mean that choice doesn't exist, and can't be exercised by even somewhat competent users. Googling "ubuntu change desktop environment" returns easily followed instructions for doing so via the GUI, so the only requirements are knowing how to use google, and what a desktop environment is (if they don't know the latter, they could easily find out by posting on the forum, or asking whichever person told them to try Ubuntu in the first place).

DE-specific releases don't exist because they're the only way of installing a DE, they exist because most people want to have a DE out of the box, but disagree which one to have.

Gnome 2 was released in 2002, and supported at least until the release of Gnome 3 in 2011 (9 years). In contrast, the WinXP was current for 6 years, and the Vista interface for 5 years until Win8. KDE has had a major release every 6 years, comparable to Windows. Xfce has been on version 4 for 12 years. Additionally, KDE4 is still supported, as is Gnome 2 (under the MATE project).
So by the numbers, the popular Linux DEs are at least as stable as Windows in terms of UI.

Now, if you want to argue that Linux is more fragmented in terms of UI because of this, that's a different discussion, but doing an apples to apples comparison shows that it is as stable/disruptive as Windows in the worst case (KDE), and significantly more stable in the other cases (Gnome and Xfce).

You can replace Gnome 3 with MATE or KDE without impairing your ability to run applications (you know, what you actually use the computer for). The same can't be said for replacing Windows.

KDE4 uses vector graphics for all of its icons, and none of them look 'flat' to me.Most of them have shadows, perspective, or some other kind of depth cue.

Yes, yes we do.

I think this can be generalized to: dating is a game of statistics. Think about what traits are correlated with what demographics to maximise your chances of success.