Linux Mint Cinnamon and Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE2) are both handling Steam just fine at my house and have been for many months.

The web offerings are those publishers' way of both targeting multiple problems. They get cross-platform without the expense of a native version on every OS, true. They capture ongoing revenue from people unlikely to upgrade native installations regularly. They lower support costs by not dealing with old versions on strange OS configurations. They focus more on the functionality than on OS-supplied library niggles.

I'm not very up to date on Creative Suite, so I couldn't say whether the online version is a full and true replacement for the Windows and macOS variants, but full color calibration at the least seems problematic over the Web. Either way, the online version isn't a Linux replacement for a Windows version. If you think any iOS or Android app or a web app on a phone will replace Photoshop and Illustrator with a big monitor and an input tablet you're obviously not a professional graphic artist.

Adobe publishes Photoshop, not the Linux folks.

Intuit publishes QuickBooks, and Sage publishes Peachtree and Sage Accounting.

Nobody else can just publish those for Linux. If you want those exact programs on another OS, you must convince the publishers it's a worthwhile market.

I notice a pattern that you call out the availability of one crap version of something and pretend it has monopoly market share.

Maybe they're getting ready to launch the Facebook Virtual Assistant.

Isn't Bangalore overdone these days? I hear good things about second outsourcing centers in Hyderabad...

As https://slashdot.org/~pthisis already said, the battery life of the fire is pretty good for a full tablet. Compared to a regular Kindle or other dedicated e-Ink or e-Paper displays it's awful. If I want a dedicated reader from a reputable company I can find if anything goes wrong, my choices right now are between a few scales of grey and a full-color screen with a big, multi-core processor sitting behind it.

If I could get something with just a few colors (like a desktop computer from 25 to 35 years ago) on e-paper or e-ink for magazine images, charts and graphs in trade paperbacks and textbooks, maps, and maybe the odd comic or something that would be great. I could still have a month-long battery life. I could differentiate data more clearly and quickly. I don't need a 2ms panel response time, 8 threads of execution, or 32 billion colors for a reader. But there's not really any middle ground right now between the greyscale reader market and the general purpose tablet market.

Right now if I want color, I just read on my Note, get out a laptop, or wait until I'm at a desktop. I'd buy a newer Kindle if it was 256 (VGA equivalent), 64 (EGA), 16, 8 , or maybe even just 4 (CGA) colors. I don't think I'm alone in this market segment.

Waterproof is great but I want something between the black e-ink and the comparably horrible battery life of a Fire. Could I have a 256, 64, or 16 - even 4 ! - color e-ink display that's not from some no-name Chinese company? Please? Something that's decent for charts and web comics doesn't need to have full color and instant screen updates.

Oh, come now. Right now I'd love to have a POTUS who could at least recognize smart peers and recognize good ideas to steal.

TL;DR : either you count all the distros among the distros or you don't. If you're counting just base kernels there are more BSD variants than Linux variants.

Who's the doctor attending today?

You and https://slashdot.org/~Tale+Sur... may both be right from different points of view. It seems you may have intended a different context from the actual context of the person to whom you replied.

"Bladerunner" is a noun.
"Blade runner" is a noun phrase.

However, the grandparent post to yours was saying that "blade" is a noun and "runner" is a verb. Tale Surovi quoted that and said "No. Both are nouns.".

Both "blade" and "runner" are in fact nouns. The root "run" would commonly be a verb (although it can be a noun in "going for a run"). The form "runner", being defined as "one who runs" is a noun.

I know this is "THE INTERNET" and people don't like to take the time to be thorough. However, if you're taking enough time to be pedantic in the comments try to take enough time to read two whole comments consisting of a total of four short lines of text before correcting someone who is already correct.

HTH. HAND.

" Effect of various long duration blast overpressures and the associated
maximum wind speed on various structures and the human body. "

This is talking about the shockwave far from the initial blast, up to several miles away from ground zero.
https://www.remm.nlm.gov/zones...
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com...

If you're close enough to be standing at the very edge of the Mach stem, you're already dead. That's also talking about a quickly gained and then sustained overpressure, very suddenly going from 1 atmo to 2 and staying there a bit. There's not much gradient, either, as it's a supersonic wave.

The physics of a streamlined vehicle going from 2 or 3 PSI (remember nobody's planning complete vacuum) back to 15 PSI pretty suddenly through a gradient of pressures are fairly well understood. That's like going from around 35,000 feet (about 3 PSI) to 50,000 feet (just under 2 PSI) in altitude to sea level quickly, depending on air temperature. That's basically a plane that can do Mach 1 at 40,000 feet doing a near-vertical dive, only there's no necessary sudden pitch change because the pod will be near horizontal the whole time.

The failure mode of a hyperloop is not at all likely to be anything similar to going from sea level at the bottom of a 40-foot cylinder of air at 15 PSI and in milliseconds having all that air replaced by water to suddenly be under 30 PSI. That's more what you're talking about with the shockwave of 15 PSI overpressue at a few thousand feet from ground zero of a nuclear blast.

BTW, if you're close enough to a nuclear blast to worry about the full force of the overpressure wave you've already cooked by the time it's crossed your mind. Further out where you're not consumed in the heat of the fireball is where you should be worried about the air pressure.

What's irrelevant, though, if you're using Linux in your hand far more than Windows on your desktop? Is it Linux that's irrelevant or the desktop?

Do you use Android? Do you spend more time with your phone or tablet than on a workstation or laptop? Congratulations, you're in the year of the Linux desktop.

Meanwhile I've got an XBox One S for movies and some games, several generations of other game consoles, a couple of Raspberry Pis running Raspbian but often used to emulate older console and desktop systems, a WebOS smart TV, a Linux smart TV, a couple of Chromecasts, a Windows desktop for games, a Linux desktop for personal non-game use, a Linux laptop for travel, a Mac desktop for company work that mostly connects to Linux systems and runs Linux VMs, a Mac laptop for company work that mostly connects to Linux machines or to my work desktop, two Android phones one each for work and personal use, and a non-Fire Kindle for reading without interruptions like I get on my other devices. My girlfriend has a Mac laptop, a Linux desktop, and an Android phone.

So... what's the question again?