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apoc.famine (621563)
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I've been using linux as my primary desktop for a few years now. Still keep an XP computer around for games that I can't get running well under wine.
My mom has been on Kubuntu since mid 2007, with increasing levels of success. (Especially after she got broadband, and we were able to toss the crappy WinModems.)
I troll "linux isn't ready for the desktop" articles here on a semi-regular basis, because as I see it, it's increasingly ready for an increasingly large number of people. Sure, it falls a bit short on games and commercial apps, but what a few loudmouths fail to realize is that those people are not a huge majority of the market share. In the rest of the world, people like my mom want to surf the web, play web-based flash games, and install the occasional solitaire game. And linux does that with a minimal amount of fuss.
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Comment Threshold
I've been noticing more often lately a problem with the generic Comment Threshold slashdot has. While it's great for main page articles, it doesn't work so well with some of the lesser trafficked areas of the site.
For example, I bask in the magic purple of games.slashdot.org on a regular basis. But I have my comment threshold set at +4 for the main page, which I read most often. On games.slashdot.org, there aren't a lot of comments, and there isn't a ton of moderation. I read it at somewhere between 0 and +2, since that lets me see a decent amount of comments.
Although it would be nice to be able to set thresholds for each section, it would also be more crap in the prefrences to wade through. At the same time, when a games.slashdot.org story makes the main page, I generally view it at +4, since I only want to wade through 50-100 comments on average.
I guess what I'm thinking about would involve a fairly major rewrite of slashcode...sigh.
I guess I'll go play around with my preferences...
