FORD = Fixed Or Repaired Daily or Found On Road Dead

I have been using Firefox ever since, like, 2004 since I ditched Internet Explorer in favor for it. In the last few years, Firefox has become a bloated piece of shit. I now run Linux only and still use Firefox. I do like it but I am sooo tempted to switch to Chrome. They keep copying Chrome anyway so what’s the point of using a bloated browser that tries to mimic Chrome? And if you wanna talk about unpopular features in Firefox why not start by removing the built in advertisements. That shit sucks. I don't care if the ads are approved by, or from, Mozilla. They are ads. And they're BUILT IN to my browser. Remove that shit. I care more about ads and invasion of privacy than I do about bloat.

There are so many places forgotten by the mainstream service providers. Competition is a good thing.

Bullshit. I switched totally over to Linux Mint last year. I single boot Linux on my top-of-the-line Dell XPS 8700. My hardware specs are an Intel i7 4770k @ 3.4GHz, 8GB (upgrading to at least 16GB soon) and 1TB ext4 HDD. I have some kind of AMD video card, 7000 series I believe. I do have additional storage on portable USB hard drives but no ext4. I am presented with no boot-loader. Just as you would turn on a Windows only PC and see the Windows splash screen I experience the same thing, only with a Linux boot splash screen. It does everything I want. Yes, it has it's quirks and I've even had to manually edit a text configuration file or two on Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 64-bit, however, Windows has it's quirks, too. It's all about familiarity. Which is why Windows 8 flopped. It's not a particularly bad OS under the hood, I'm sure, but they changed too much. Linux will take over the computing world in the next five to ten years in some form or fashion. It already has as Android. As far as Linux on the desktop (or laptop) I do see the userbase increasing but not to the level most Linux users would like to see. But, be careful what you wish for. I love running an OS that is incompatible with viruses and the like. Linux does what I want. It is definitely non-commercial and it shows. Running a distro means that some parts may be incomplete to a point or even buggy. Linux is a continuing digital construction zone. A constant work in progress. That said, I am blown away how far Linux has come from Linux Mandrake 8.0 in 2001 to Linux Mint 17.2 in 2015. Notice I didn't mention Ubuntu. It's spyware disguised as a Linux distro. Both Mint and Ubuntu don't ship with essential tools to compile but all of that can be fixed - all of it's little quirks. The only thing I'm still on the fence about is compiling from source programs that I can't find in the software center or programs in the software center that just don't work anymore. That's all for now.

L O the fuck L

That is why I installed Ad-Block Plus. Well, it was the final straw. Slashdot was running some shit based Flash ad that was taking up the entire page and using 5GB of RAM to run the ad in plugin-containter. Not only does it block ads but contributes to the general stability of your system.

Well, as a happy Mediacom cable Internet customer I can happily say that the speeds I get are always over what I pay for. I pay $24.99 a month for 100/10. I get 113/17. Not to mention a 1TB cap I'll never hit. For $5 more a month I can get 150/20 with a 2TB cap I ever need to. If your Internet Service Provider isn't suiting your needs there aren't always options. For example, the only other ISP in my area is AT&T with their "blazing fast" 6/512 ADSL service that got it's last speed boost sometime around 2007 with the xTreme 6.0 package. Now, they're pushing uVerse but the fastest they can offer in my (and most other) areas is 18Mbps for over twice the cost of my 100Mbps service. The USA really needs to get it's act together concerning broadband. I'm not saying we need gigabit connections everywhere (although it would be nice!) but 50Mbps+ is really needed these days to fully enjoy the interwebz.

Yeah, seriously. It's not a desktop OS and it never will be unless the designers want to destroy it's mobile usefulness. Android was born to compete with iOS. Why would you want to run it on a desktop? Go ahead, try it. Within a week after the neat factor dies off you'll be clamoring for that Linux or Windows installation disc. The best thing, actually, would be to run Android x86 in live mode off USB. That way, you could run it without having to alter your PC. It would be interesting to see run on a big screen and all but an even better idea is to just broadcast to a big TV from your smartphone. There's lots of devices out there nowadays that do just that.

heh heh That's clever.

Just get a few cheap off-the-shelf PC's and install some varaition of Linux onto them. Program a custom application to run on said Linux boxes and call it a day. Most expensive part would be hiring the developers to write some code to control the units.

I am look forward to using Cinnamon 2.6 as a part of the upcoming Linux Mint 17.2 release. It should be out by the end of June or July. Linux has opened up a new world for me that I am still exploring.

None of this matters as I've switched to Linux Mint 17.1 (soon to be 17.2!) Cinnamon 64-bit edition. My Dell XPS 8700 came with Windows 8.0 which I upgraded to Windows 7. I eventually got tired of Windows fuckery and decided to wipe my entire HDD. Now, when I boot up my computer, it boots straight into Linux as a computer with a Windows-only installation would boot into Windows. No bootloader or any bullshit. Just 1TB of ext4 and a free, secure and stable OS that does everything I want. Linux takes care of itself, while you can take care of life and things that matter.

I run ad-block Plus on my Firefox. With this new built in ads, what is the point?

Maybe some more great Linux games can be made now. The last time this happened, Open Arena was one of the great games to come out. I love Open Arena and play it daily.