back in my days we used to punch cards and it was worked fine for us! kids these days!

I love Gnome Shell. I am the 1%.

I know a lot of people hate Gnome Shell, but I want to let you know that there are a substantial number of people like me, who love vanilla gnome shell. And no, I don't work for Gnome. Before shell came out, I had a similar setup on my ubuntu 10.04 with synapse as a launcher, and a hot corner using compiz for selecting between apps. Having said that, shell needs to work on their performance issues, but I think their vision isn't really bad.

baah! my bad!

Are you sure about that? Don't you think you are talking about SIMD rather than pipelining? Well, it has been a long time, but I was under the impression that SPEs are stripped of all branch prediction, pipelining etc to overcome the powerwall. Data transfer and execution is software pipelined, yes, but there is no level of pipelining in the hardware. I could be talking total bs though.

at least calc will. libreoffice calc cell datastructures are not suitable to offloading chunks of operations. once a rewrite is achieved (which is being thought about, should be worked upon soon), you could offload actions to gpu making things a lot faster. About the ui though, I am not happy with the current state of things, since I hate menus. It creates the illusion of organization, even though a single menu has more than 15 items in it. That is crappy design, it is familiar, but crappy nevertheless. I have been a linux user since a long time, but I do not hate everything Microsoft for the heck of it. I think ribbon ui, is a decent (eats screen estate.. bad) solution to organizational problem. Perhaps a Kate-sque approach would be good.

You would obviously complain about graphics, gameplay length for big titles because they hardly take any risks. But compare that to more ballsy risky games such as lugaru, brain, amnesia, starcraft 1 or even mirrors edge (debatable for some), then you will obviously start focusing on the positives.