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Comment Re:Wonder why? (Score 1) 167

Mandrake was also my first distribution, and it's the whole reason I started looking for Linux distributions that had good documentation and stuck to standard naming conventions. I spent upwards of 2-3 weekends trying to figure out why I couldn't configure my sound card on the command line... only to find out that Mandrake devs had removed "alsaconfig" in favor of GUI-only "draksound", so all the tutorials I had read were for naught. I switched to Fedora, openSUSE, then eventually Gentoo, and now I'm happily using Arch Linux.

Comment Re:Simple answer: No. (Score 1) 462

You open Control Panel and you are asked to choose between "Heffalumps, Woozels, or Orange Juice", and not knowing what is what but wanting to find something to do with Network Settings you click 'Orange Juice' only to be presented with more meaningless text like "I see you would like some Orange Juice, would you prefer Toothpaste, Cheques, or Mints with your Orange Juice" and the right answer for Network Settings is that you want Mints with your Orange Juice.

You, sir, owe me a new keyboard. I spewed my morning Network Settings all over it.

Comment Re:Not that I mind longer games but... (Score 1) 462

But please, let me play it in 120 30 minute increments and feel good about it

This is the reason I'm enjoying Final Fantasy XIII. Most of my friends are complaining about the lack of open-world exploration, lack of battle micromanaging and the enormous amount of cutscenes, but the fact that I can feel a sense of accomplishment while waiting for the girlfriend to get ready to go out is great. I can unlock a new ability or two on my characters during a quick 20 minute session and on top of that I get to advance the plot with another 45 second cutscene.

Comment Re:Rage on! (Score 1) 118

Seemingly this game is what happens when trolls actually participate in the community.

No, you've just stumbled onto a community of trolls. I've been playing the closed beta since early last year, and while I give mad props to the developers for supporting Linux (even 64-bit!), I don't feel motivated to buy the game. HoN isn't fun unless I'm playing an in-house game with people I know, because the rest of the HoN community is too worried about their precious e-peens.

Comment Re:It can be a blurry line (Score 1) 129

Except that "updates coming automatically these days" can itself be a serious timesink for your sysadmin, as he has to check every patch that's automatically downloaded to make sure it's not going to BSoD someone's box. It's easy to say "Oh, updates are automatic" when it just applies to your computer at home, but when any computer going down in any office across a large business is your problem, a crash caused by a single automatically applied patch can have a massive effect on your workload.

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