Comment Apt me to the Muon, let me play among the PPAs ... (Score 1) 84
It's totally awesome how the linked article tells you that you can install it with:
apt-get install muon
apt-get install muon-installer
It's totally awesome how the linked article tells you that you can install it with:
apt-get install muon
apt-get install muon-installer
Oddly enough the government did regulate the Internet in the early years.
Excuse me?
You can cite these regulations, of course. I'd love to look at them.
It has been fixed.
No, it hasn't.
They're going to roll back the patches the caused the problem, but this isn't a "fix" for the main issue.
For video cards? Not generally. Most users who are upgrading drivers will use the reference manufacturer's.
How do you quantify this enough to use the word "most" accurately?
I'm not claiming I know because I don't, which is the point. More than one method exists for acquiring these drivers, which creates tracking problems for the manufacturer.
Less than two years ago, I always downloaded drivers directly from NVidia and used the script for compiling it. For a long time, I resisted the use repository packages, in part because they tended to be out of date.
With the system I have now, I've stopped doing that.
But this is me, and a sampling of one is not representative. A sampling of a group of users who all have a common purpose or philosophy about such things would not be representative either. I mention the latter because groups of friends who use Linux may all have a common strategy based on shared experience for such things, leading to skewed perceptions about what "most" people do.
I'm just curious if you have some actual data on this.
For the *unwashed masses* tabs is the only positive feature of FF.
Well, I suppose a study could be done to determine this, but based purely on my interactions with others, that's not the case.
Early-on, those who might be considered among the "unwashed masses" I knew were actually confused by tabs. And I'll have to admit I was initially resistant to the idea until I became accustomed to it and realized how much easier it made my browsing life. (I'd used Opera before encountering Firefox and wasn't particularly impressed by tabs.) One client I had way back when, for example, never used the tabs, but he liked certain extensions and used them a lot.
You said it yourself with your comment about AdBlock.
I agree with your bottom line, though. I've never thought that one browser being declared superior to all the others was a desirable goal. I use four different browsers actually, Firefox being most common. They've all improved a great deal in the last several years, and I think Firefox's success (not just its technical success but its success in infiltrating the browser market itself) has had a great influence on that.
"Well, it don't make the sun shine, but at least it don't deepen the shit." -- Straiter Empy, in _Riddley_Walker_ by Russell Hoban