When Ubuntu got Unity desktop I moved over to Mint with Cinnamon from my previous Gnome 2 desktop and haven't looked back since. I find using windows afterwards can be quite irritating.

Use it every day on my work laptop, and if I could play all my games easily on Linux it would be on my gaming tower PC too instead of win 10. I was really hoping AMD were going to make their consumer gfx cards able to be assigned natively to a VM so I could run Mint and use a win VM for games if needed. Unfortunately they didn't do it, and now I have a Ryzen with no onboard gfx anyway for the host os, so cest la vie.

The Gnome 3 debacle followed by Ubuntu (with bit momentum at that time) deciding Unity was a good idea... talk about Desktop Linux snatching defeat from the jaws of victory! smh

Check out the videos, first with Steve going through the test report and saying how shoddy it seems and the second he actually rocked up to the company who did the benchmark tests for Intel and interviews them.

Intel's Gross Incompetence & Principled Technologies (Intel Responds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Exclusive: Interview w/ Principled Technologies on Intel Testing (9900K) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Not much else needs saying, other than what a ridiculous move from Intel. How dumb do they think people are... oh, right. :-)

As far as I am concerned, wouldn't buy Intel before and double wouldn't buy em now.

The current crop of android phones from Motorolla are great and very good value for money. Now that Samsung's are POS due to their Andoid UI usability 'enhancements' I prefer Moto's by a mile.

Intel's business practices should be all you need to decide to support their competition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A-fucking-men!

Jeez this guy thinks he got fired for starting a reasonable discussion. SMH.

I think this pretty much covers it for anyone who is confused why this was so controversial.

https://medium.com/@yonatanzun...

Oh FFS, that is not what Feminism is about at all. Let me fix that for you:

According to feminism, maintaining a household, raising children are not considered to be a woman's job specifically. It's up to her as a *person* to decide, along with her partner how to work as a team and how to share work & responsibilities.

Honestly for a community who generally consider themselves rational and able to research stuff, there are an awful lot of uninformed idiots on slashdot these days especially when it comes to feminism. It's not that hard boys, it really isn't. SMH

Bullshit. I've worked with (and led) a lot of engineers over the past 2+ decades and many men & women. I have never needed to tiptoe around women in tech development groups. I've had drama with both women & men at about the same amount. Same for ability & effectiveness. The one difference I have found is that male engineers are much more likely to overestimate their competence than female engineers. This means if I have two engineers where everything else was equal except gender I think I'd tend to prefer working with the woman.

There are as many women as men on my mental short list of engineers that I've worked with and would call up if I were creating a dream team. Now, I have worked with 3-4x as many male engineers in my career so that also says something I think.

I'm wondering if maybe your experience says more about you and the way you treat women, than it says about the women you've worked with?

I've not used Pandora for 15 years (since it got restricted to US only) but I now find Spotify discover weekly is as good if not better.

I find that Spotifys discover weekly is a great way to discover new music. Usually get a few songs I like from the list each week - sometimes a dozen. I then listen to each artists back catalog to see if I like anything else. Often I don't but sometimes I do, and 9 times out of 10 I've never heard of them.

I now have a 600+ song playlist after 6 months or so, containing none of my usual suspects - which I am generally bored of.

Now if only they would improve their Linux & Android apps!! But the breadth of music is really good.

Thank you for some sanity around here. (I mean it's hardly a mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes now is it, yet from what I can see it's confusing those with prejudiced starting points an awful lot)

I didn't want a smart TV and still don't want one. However I do have one. It was cheap and a really nice upgrade from the very old (and second hand) 32" CRT. Watching netflix on it is nice, cos on Tivo it's horrible. I still would probably rather have a dumb TV though.

I've not bought a mainstream game all year (although I'm just about to buy the MI remake) whereas I've usually bout 5+ per year for the last 2 decades. Basically because there's been nothing I've wanted to play. Maybe I'm too old to be the target market for mainstream publishers now, but more and more I'm looking to indie games. Gonna buy the Penumbra trilogy which has just been released for Linux, another indie.

Produce good games and I'll be a customer again!.

Thank you for posting a reasonable and rational summary. People who are so greedy like these studio execs make me want to believe in Hell !!

Heh, pretty much I guess, although I think of it more as priorities. You're quite correct that if I really wanted to get it working I would - never had anything beat me when I was determined. (just like any self respecting geek)

I was just looking for an easy step by step link because it's not important enough to me to prioritise over all the other stuff I have to do. At least I know it is possible, and maybe I'll find the time someday.

Cheers.