Ah..Seems inconsistent with the names of the other devices (a 7" Nexus 7, 10.something" Nexus 10).

As recently as 2010 I had problems with my sound card (from a 2009 Dell Vostro laptop). The problems vanished with the arrival of Ubuntu 10.04, but ever since then power management has gone downhill, and fast. With 10.04, I could get as much or more time from the battery using Linux as with Windows. Not since then.

Seems to me a classic case of Dunning-Kruger effect.

No, this Windows thing is true of Samsung as well. When I recently visited Bangalore, I saw a billboard which said 'thank you' for their popularity. The ad didn't mention Android; it did show Android phones like S3 and Note II (with blank screens) and below the humongous Samsung logo, logos for Windows Phone and bada OS. No mention of Android at all. It's obvious these vendors' hands are tied when it comes to which platform gets better advertising.

Ubuntu 9.10, then the subsequent versions before some annoyance made me move to Linux Mint, while dabbling at Arch quite recently. I still think Ubuntu (I am back to using Ubuntu, except for trying Mint for a while when a new version is out) is better in the long run compared to Mint (upgrading being the chief problem), but Mint with VLC and stuff preinstalled is better for new users. At least then they won't be disappointed that not even simple mp3/avi files will play. But installing with an internet connection, something which I couldn't do until a month or so back, removes a lot of issues like drivers and Flash, etc.

Sorry, my bad. Didn't see that part about GNOME3 devs dying. I concur with the points before that.

His problem is the GNOME3 team's UI, which is GNOME Shell. GNOME3, aside from UI changes did improve things a lot, but a total divorce from GNOME2's UI is not easily forgivable. And the dependence of GNOME Shell on GDM doesn't improve matters.

I'm confused. I see why if you want to write something in Java, it should be in a .java file, but the converse shouldn't hold. After all, it could be C++ and if I had a compiler which ignored the extension, it would compile as well. Oracle doesn't own the .java extension, and Google is free to use it as it pleases. Until they say it's Java, it isn't Java. You merely assume from the extension that it's Java, however unfortunate (and common) that assumption would be.

And Google calls it Java? Also, only the Dalvik bytecode part makes it incompatible, the others merely render it incomplete. If Google had promised a complete implementation, I'd see the problem. Android uses the Java syntax and part of the API. Don't call that Java (and Google doesn't, either). Using files with extension .java doesn't imply Java support.

So remind me how Google make an incompatible implementation of Java?

Might be something with the installer. The three pcs I used it in, I tried the portable version. Didn't need to edit any inis. Indigo and Juno detected Java on my Linux box fine, and on Windows using the GUI (with Ganymede, Indigo and Juno) worked fine. But then again, I have trouble getting Juno to look half-decent in my laptop even after editing CSS. Indigo worked fine, though.

LOL.. what version of eclipse are you using? -0.1? I'm using a three-year-old version, and I can add a jdk through the GUI.

I disagree that it is niche. With two (admittedly major) things, this could be the Linux distro to take over the desktop. A decent setup program and corporate backing. Seriously. If I could Google how to do X and be able to apply the solution for any distro on mine, just think about how much would that simplify things for grand mas and granddads. Corporate backing to push vendors to pre-install it and get companies to use it. I understand that it's a long way out. A unified front. That said, I wish you the best and I hope that I can get to contribute in some way in the future (too much of a n00b/scaredy-cat to venture into an open-source project now).

And you most certainly shouldn't hold his breath.

BIOS screen doesn't prove anything.. I dual (quad?) boot with two instances of Ubuntu, one of Win7 and one of Win8. Usually, there's only one entry for both WIndows in GRUB, WIndows 8. Sometimes after selecting Win8 from GRUB, it goes directly to Windows 8 instead of waiting for the choice on 7/8, almost as if Windows 8 had slept/hibernated/resurrected. And in such instances I am invariably logged in. Has happened about 4 times so far. But no problems before or after booting.