Comment Re:obligatory xkcd (Score 1) 287
Out of curiosity, how has upgrading worked for you? It seems that Mint's dev prefer a clean-reinstall upgrade. Have you done that or in-place upgrades?
Out of curiosity, how has upgrading worked for you? It seems that Mint's dev prefer a clean-reinstall upgrade. Have you done that or in-place upgrades?
The only thing that makes me hessitate about Mint is upgrades. It seems that it's oriented towards full-reinstall upgrades, and I wouldn't want my parents having to do that (and they wouldn't do it either). Having used XP for about 6years without reinstalling, I really want to offer something that can offer a similar experience.
Then again, Ubuntu has been know to break everything between releases. So I'm not sure what to use!
And pray she doesn't want to stay with Windows. My mother learned to use Windows 8 out of spite enough so she doesn't need Linux, but not enough so she can keep her own computer clean (by the way, I need to go back there check how is the new antivirus working, does anybody have good recomendations?).
Personally, I don't bother giving any support to windows users - even family members. First of all, I don't want to waste time learning windows-related stuff, secondly, they know my stance on the matter, and know I won't support non-free software. Finally, they have more motivation to migrate to *nix if they know you'll support them once they do.
Actually, the fact that it runs firefox is interesting: it'll help keep the browser market heteregenous, which is what's best for both devs and users in the long run. We don't need another browser dominating the market just like IE did: it gives them too much power.
Plenty of XP software that fails on win7/8 works fine on wine.
Let me remind you that the Silk Road mantainer was tracked by an inpected postal package, not through tor.
People gave lots of money to a total stranger for that stranger to take care of it, and got robbed.
Does that prove that Bitcoin is a bad idea, or that people are too stupid?
Plus, OpenBSD 4.5 is about
Nope. I just used the windows version on wine, and now, I'm getting rid of that. Surely, not the only person.
Plus, this means Portal 2 is now available for SteamOS.
Exactly, there's plenty of 2012/2013 reasons to hate microsoft, and people hate them because of that.
I belive this applies to windows only. I don't other OS's allow any program to scan the memory of other programs.
Also, even in windows, can't you just run steam as a different user than the cheat itself?
With the issues with patent trolls that dominate the US, it's a very dangerous territory for them to leap into, so I don't think it's one of their priorities.
Honestly, there should be a viable, easy-to-use alternative to Facebook which respects your privacy and doesn't have shady dealings with a government and isn't run by a functionally retarded man-child. But if there is one, well I don't know about it. And if I don't know about it, then 95% of people don't know about it.
I concurs, but sadly, most people don't, and that's why we don't have such an alternative.
Spending 19B on something in panicing? I wish I had the means to panic!
It's Jabber, but without the hassle of account creation. Username is automatically set up as your phone number, and password is your IMEI or something.
Jabber with the most important part stripped off: de-centralization. And no voice/video support either.
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
