I dont think you should have gotten down modded because you make a valid point about their apparent scoring system and then you give a nice opinion based input that all make good sense.

This is just my personal opinion and im not saying this is the correct answer. This is my answer... Best distro overall of 2014? Arch Linux. The distro's affinity for clean and clear scripts on top of the way you build your system never ceases to teach me new things all the time. Best distro for the new user of 2014? Mint. Clean and simple package management. Best distro for business servers of 2014? CentOS 7. It is very well polished, rock stable, and dead simple Windows Active Directory integration. I lub Linux =B

The selfishness bringing this terrible disease to your county... immoral fucking asshole

While im not saying its okay to dig up personal information through google searches and then freaking out the girl by sharing the information the creep dug up, I do find it concerning that she is victim blaming google for finding this information that she was responsible for making public in the first place. Google doesn't make available information that you hadn't posted online in the first place.

ZFS not liking raid is not a con but more an alernative. ZFS does what raid controllers do but in software. Plenty of advantages not the least of which it does raid faster, uses your ram as a very large cache, does not have the raid 5 write-hole bug. Would you want to run a hardware raid off of another hardware raid controller? ZFS has fantastic performance. It does love memory but it uses it well. Ive been using ZFS on Archlinux for over two years and have had 0 zfs failures. The only expandability issue people run into is when you want to increase your zvol device it has to match the size of the others in the same volume. Btrfs has advantages in this area as its been designed with releveling in mind but zfs generally outperforms everywhere else.

Correct but I think the reason there's so much pushback is because it wont be long before it's not just an alternative with backward compatibility and it becomes the only way. Stepping us in that direction.

What us geeks dislike about it is much the same reason we dislike systemd: its an abstract layer between you and the configuration of your services/daemons. We like init.d in that we can script those daemons and even add on to those init scripts if we choose. Where as windows services puts this wall between you and that sweetness. And systemd is pushing us in that direction and OP's last comment in the summary is ringing more and more true.

Man, I'd say we are leaving the point where the bad programmers can slow these machines down and we're not looking back. The downside to this is that it's going to fully encourage those bad programmers to continue their bad practices since "their program runs great!" (because of the hardware, not their good coding skillz)!

to be fair... In my job, It does me very well to have 10+ VMs running on my desktop machine 24/7. Sandy Bridge-E (3930K, hex-core) was a god send for this. The 64 GB of RAM plays no small part as well, of course. I believe I left an E-8600 Core 2 Duo and 4 GB of RAM for this particular upgrade. Needless to say, for this workload, it was a fantastic upgrade. Obviously, there's been no value in leaving SB-E for IVB-E or now Haswell-E as the performance jump just is so minimal. Though, some of the cool things they've put on the silicon in these last 2 gens are enticing, but just not enough to leave for. I'd say the coolest thing about Haswell-E is the X99 chipset. That chipset is drool worthy at 10 6Gb/s SATA ports, butt loads of PCIE lanes, and DDR4 support.

this is funny, because it's true.

Well im definitely talking about a real tape library setup where you'd offsite a secondary copy for DR but still would hold a set of tapes onsite ready to go... so...

That's not really how tape systems work. Generally they keep an index online so you can tell the tape system to pop in a specific tape and goto a specific position, longest load times... in real world that i've personally witnessed... 10 mins

For all intensive purposes...

Fuck this republicant/democant shit... they are all greedy incompetent peices of shit who are a waste of air they breathe. They make me embarassed of our otherwise great country.

Maybe being able to get through an application form on a webpage is the first test that weeds out the incompetent.