I bought a 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV. Iâ(TM)ve had it since April and couldnâ(TM)t be happier. It is an awesome car at a fair price.

It also has wireless CarPlay - a requirement for me when considering a new car.

All 2024 and newer Chevy EVs were scheduled to feature faster charging (yeah!) but no CarPlay and a MUCH higher starting price for larger vehicles.

Me, I am glad I ordered what I did when I did. It was a brief moment when the stars aligned and one could get reasonable value for the money. Then top brass went and messed it all up for future customers.

No thanks.

I have supported and continue to support multiple open source projects with money, time, and hardware, both personally and professionally. I was a big fan of RMSs work and the FSF as an organization. It is fair to say that he was formative for a generation of computer scientists.

I am not a snowflake but I do know right from wrong.

RMS is wrong and the FSF is wrong to reinstate him. I will never support the FSF again and will pull support from any organization that continues to support this man or this organization.

I lost all respect for RMS when this controversy (of his own making) broke. At the time I educated myself on his writing outside of the FSF community. He has repugnant, fringe opinions that I disagree with completely. I thought the FSF would survive this controversy when they ejected him. If there is justice, it will not survive this. So be it. The beauty of free and open software is that it transcends the individual or even the organization.

Many of the commenters here (the majority, perhaps) are also wrong. I find it sad and disappointing.

I say good riddance. Richard Stallman is entitled to his disgusting, terrible opinions but that doesn't mean that he is entitled to a job or a platform.

While he may have done much for free software, open source, and computer science in the past, opinions such as his are a terrible problem. At the least, they serve to stifle voices that may have even more to contribute, and they work to perpetuate a repulsive part of STEM and society that should have no more space in good public discourse.

I had been an admirer of his work, opinions, and legacy until his hideous views were brought to light. That he has been sharing these publicly for decades shows that I hadn't taken the time to research him well enough.

He can go now. We need to be better than this for a just society to flourish. Selam Jie Gano should be celebrated for her bravery in exposing the truth and bringing attention to his long-running misogyny. (And worse.)

I have the 2013 and 2015 XPS 13. Both are great keyboards. Not quite ThinkPad quality, but close. The trackpads on both are pretty lame, though.

This one's easy. Of current new laptops, the best keyboard hands-down is the ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25. It's essentially a very slightly improved T420/X220/W520 keyboard.

My other favourites:
- ThinkPad X220/T420/W520
- ThinkPad T40/T60
- Apple PowerBook 12/15
- HP Mini 2133 and 2140 (Seriously. Great little keyboards.)

Yes. This is exactly what we are stuck with. What's worse is that we're really stuck with Apple and Samsung, as they account for over 100% of profits from handhelds (meaning everyone else is losing money.)

As we've lost choice in platforms, we will soon lose choose in who is offering the platforms. At the moment, LG, HTC, Samsung, Sony, BlackBerry, Asus, and a boatload of Chinese companies offer Android phones. If the second-tier manufacturers like LG, HTC, Sony can't be profitable, they'll have to exit. This will leave us with Apple with iOS, Samsung selling premium and mid-range, and everyone else squabbling for enough table scraps to stay afloat with Android.

I applaud the effort on Ubuntu Mobile, but I'd put it's chances of succeeding as far less than BlackBerry's or even Firefox OS, which at least had good buzz and shipped devices for a couple of years.

We've lost Symbian, webOS, BlackBerry OS already. Firefox OS is toast, and I can't imagine that Jolla has much gas left. If Microsoft wasn't Microsoft, Windows Phone OS would have died completely ages ago, and still likely will. iOS is a walled garden, Android is a sieve that sends everything back to Google for monetization. And it's still a usability disaster. It's a pretty bad state of affairs.

I'd take BlackBerry Blend and Adobe's Creative Cloud. (Specifically InDesign.)

I think the ThinkPad X220 was the pinnacle of ThinkPad design: Perfect keyboard, light, IPS display, easily serviced and upgraded, no need for dongles. It's been downhill ever since. For the life of me, I can't understand why Lenovo felt the need to mess with their keyboards after the X220/T420/W520. They were absolutely perfect.

It's telling that the biggest feature of the newest X1 Carbon is the return of the same keyboard as the first X1 Carbon. It was good machine. No doubt this one is too, but I'll be holding on to my X220 at work for the foreseeable future and don't know why anyone would buy this rather than Dell's XPS 13. It's smaller, lighter, is better made, and has the best keyboard I've used on a new laptop. (Too bad it doesn't have a trackpoint.)

That made me laugh! In many ways, I still find PamOS to be a more effecient OS than what's available today. Just think of how fast it was considering it was running on a CPU chunking away at 8-33MHz! That said, you really can't go back.

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I also love XFCE and still use it on any servers with X11 installed. (Though I miss the days of it looking like CDE.) The last time I tried it in earnest, it didn't handle multi-monitor support very well. Has that improved recently?

I'm not really sure why people think that Elementary OS is a copy of OS X. Sure, it's similar in the same way that all contemporary smartphones look like an iPhone, but beneath the theme (with a dock, like WindowMaker, XFCE, and countless other WMs have) it behaves very differently - distinctly. Workspaces, for instance, are quite different. There's no integrated top menu like there is in Mac OS or Unity, all apps behave very differently than they would on Mac OS X, etc.

Even the theme isn't really a Mac clone. It's "just" a grey theme (albeit a well designed one) with slight gradients and very little, very well created window chrome. Mac OS, Chrome OS, Elementary OS, Cinnamon/Linux Mint, and to a lesser extent Gnome, are all heading in a similar direction design-wise; they aren't really copying each other to get there, though.

Any similarities are skin deep. The Elementary OS team is making changes and design decisions from the default language to applications that result in a fast, coherent system that bears little resemblance to Mac OS (or Windows or Unity, for that matter.)

I've been using Elementary OS Luna for about a year now. It's just lovely.

It has no grand plans of world-domination or a perfectly converged all-in-one interface to rule them all. It does give me the stability and packages of Ubuntu with excellent desktop usability and elegance.

It offers a consistent, well-thought out interface. It easily supports colour calibration, multiple workspaces and monitors, great keybindings, etc. After using it for a bit, it has become an effortless part of my workflow in a way that Unity failed to.

And that's the old version.

This is news. As someone using Desktop Linux daily, a new release of Elementary OS based on the latest LTS of Ubuntu is what will finally have me upgrading my machines. I have great respect and appreciation for what Cannonical has done for the Linux desktop. I use Ubuntu everywhere I can, but for day-to-day Linux desktop use, I use and recommend Elementary OS.

Try it. If you like simple and elegant interfaces, I think you'll like it.

Eight years is a long time in tech. Jono has done much for the Ubuntu community. As an open source supporter and Ubuntu user, I will miss his contributions and thank him for his excellent work. He's a great motivator and an interesting author with much to contribute. No doubt he will do well for XPRIZE.

The Server Edition is pretty minimal. If you're looking for X anyway, I'd just start with Server and add what you need. Yes, it's bigger than JEOS, but it also has all of your bases covered. Removing packages is trivial anyway.

I typically start with Server, if it's a physical machine, and lubuntu-desktop. Sure, I waste a few hundred MB, but it saves me time and gives any other admin, even on ewith limited Linux experience, a pretty recognizable and usable environment without the bulk of things like an office suite.

All patched up. Most machines were still running 10.04, which was unaffected. (Lucky me.)

I'll be upgrading all of our Ubuntu 12.04 machines (and many 10.04 servers) over the coming months, and I'm looking forward to the changes.

Canonical and Ubuntu have done more for desktop Linux than any other company I can think of. I look forward to their regular releases, strong committment to patches, and easy, reliable upgrades. As a sysadmin, they've made my life much easier on both server and desktop. Predictable releases and solid relationships with Dell, IBM, and HP mean that I can buy almost server or laptop and know that it will "just work."

Thank you to the developers, backers, hackers, and community.