And there's always the easiest way: just scroll all the way down past the crap that's trying to get you to pay and the answers are right there.

Apparently, Google has a problem with non-public content coming up in search results.

Yeah, I have for the most part been using KDE and GNOME-based distributions, but I don't really think you can fault me for that because it's implicit that we're comparing a typical Windows experience with a typical Linux one.

And in all seriousness and without any desire to flame/troll or anything of the sort, you can't really say that some niche barebones Window manager is typical of Linux on the desktop.

Finally, I was just relating my own experience. Nothing more

I haven't used OS X for more than five minutes at a time so I really can't comment on its responsiveness, but yeah, prioritizing foreground tasks is no doubt a wise idea.

I know what you mean. Windows really suffers from a bad case of OS rot, a condition exacerbated by the copious amonts of malware collected by the typical user. But the UI, in my experience, is a tad snappier. That's all I was saying.

Nice to see somebody thinks I'm a troll.

You know, I'm as pro-open source as the next guy here, but I try not to be dogmatic about it. I've played with a bunch of Linuxes from the first half of the 1990s onward and even used it professionally for a time. While there are many things I like about the OS, it does have it's faults. Like not being as user friendly as Win. Like not being as snappy as Win.

I'm really sorry if I hurt somebody's precious feelings, but a troll I certianly am not. And like I said, I'm very glad this patch is coming out and will continue to run Linux as my secondary OS.

No matter how many different flavors of Linux I installed, it just never seemed as snappy as Windows. There was always a sluggishness about it, nothing I could really put my finger on, but it was definitely there and it bothered me. I'm very glad to hear that a solution is in sight.

I hope the people at Ubunto get this out as an update as soon as possible.

If you read the article more carefully, you'll notice things like 'children with such and such personality trait TENDED to exhibit this same trait as adults.' I'll bet that the paper itself waters this down even more. The reason is that clear-cut scenarios are very rare in fields such as psychology and in the sciences in general.

The problem is that journalists (or submitters to Slashdot, Reddit and so on) tend to prefer absolute statements, so what was originally a description of a tendency becomes a new law of nature.