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And how we have all had our regular switching-your-distro-experiences over the last 10 to 15 years!
And how we were proud to have found the latest and greatest - multiple times!

Does anyone of you waste a second of thought on us; us who try to actually make it the "year of the Linux desktop" by rolling a distro and a DE out to a multitude of users?
Users who give a toss about new distros and yet new DE? Users who would love to stick to their distro and DE for the rest of their lives?
No wonder about this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 It is mostly self-inflicted.

I think the arrogant GNOME developers are the only ones to blame here.
If Canonical hadn't developed unity then the choice would be ... gnome hell.

While this is insightful, to say the least, I doubt if it can be generalised for 'engineering'. I doubt this very much.
Whenever I was involved in employing electrical engineers, I'd surely look very closely at the formal qualification. If I were in civil engineering, I would use a microscope before I allowed anyone to 'deliver' - as you put it - at building a bridge for my company, for example.
And the submitter states he is a mechanical engineer.

Sorry, I forgot the second part of my request of sparement: I usually add 'chroot-nonsense'. Because I don't want to load some loop-mounted image. I want to insert any (u)SD with *nix on it and go through the installer. I don't understand. I could install, and have been using Ubuntu on my OMAP4-pandaboard off (u)SD for one year now. Why not on a similar tablet?

Mark S., what do you say?

Make that paragraph 19, I'd suggest:
"no person shall, unless he is a Registered Computing Professional
(a) practice, carry on business or take up employment which requires him to carry out or perform the services of a Registered Computing Professional"
is sufficient to get the gist.

Thumbs up!!
100% agree.
+5 Insightful

Tell this to my wife or my employer.

and yet, I say it up and down, everywhere: I'll buy the first tablet that runs Debian natively (make that Ubuntu, or anything like that). I buy a tablet, price doesn't matter too much, the day I can install some Linux-Distro on it (please, spare all of the us the 'Android-is-Linux' nonsense comments). I don't need coolness, I am cool. I need OpenOffice on my tablet, no Google-Docs, and I need printing. Not a single Cent for some app, no new printer. CUPS is on any reasonable Linux-Distro, and that's what I am waiting for.
Thanks to the original submitter. I was almost tempted to buy a tablet today, despite of all my good intentions as above. I didn't even consider I would not be able to print. Now I know that I am not going to buy a tablet for the time being.

You see, this is nice reading. And nice thinking. Unfortunately, it is totally unscientific. You propagate the idea that theories that sound warm and fuzzy should be accepted as truth, while theories that result in harshness and coldness should be discarded.
That is your good right.
However, you overstep your perimeter by calling us, who have a different opinion of yours, .... names.

You fail it, alas. Because you narrate anecdotal evidence on how Darwinism was introduced in Pakistan. Maybe interesting, but anyone could have narrated that. And I cannot make out any 'Muslim perspective' in your words.

Indeed. Why should I worry about the tiny minority of suicide bombers rather than the vast majority of the nice co-travelers?
So, in your opinion it is okay when some medical students boycott and refuse learning that goes against their personal conviction?