I liked Windows ME best of all the versions. It looked and felt newer, worked well for media, had some transparency effects, and I found it better than Windows 98, yet it could still run "consumer" software like Windows NT often could not. Future versions of Windows got worse and worse (a trend which continues to this day).

The thing I remember hating about it is that most progress bars would run twice. It had been a long-standing windows trick to have completely incorrect completion time estimations and to go fast to about 80% and then stall for minutes. But Windows ME would do this trick twice - just when the bar finally hit 100%, it would start over. It was so frustrating it became a glorious joke to me, begging the question of why they even included progress bars at all? It was like a weather report that was almost always wrong - probably worse than none at all.

What rating did it receive?

Trump's immigration reform is not "comprehensive". Whatever you think of the migrant workers in the south, the US immigration system is really broken in many other ways on many other issues. Conservative republicans are so worried about workers from Mexico that they block all other attempts at immigration reform, this is no exception. The H1-B stuff is a undeveloped tag-on to attract tech voters and it's the only non-mexican border reform proposed.

Although Alan Cox probably has something to say about SSDs, I don't think anyone bothered to contact him for this article.

The environmental, material, and human costs that went into making and then destroying 2000 of these things matters too. What a waste!

There are problems with Gnome and GTK+, but what surprises me is that KDE and QT have managed to remain consistently, in the words of RMS, butt-ugly throughout the years. It's like a requirement for each new release to be at least as ugly as the last one. Even with plasma and fancy 3D effects, still that same ugly-mugly, kinda-boxy, badly spaced, wierdly rendered fonts, dumb controls, QT look. My love for gnome has dissipated markedly in the last few years with the gnome 3 disaster, but it is hard to imaging replacing it with, ugh, butt-ugly kde.

Or you could just use your Wii controllers with your pc using bluetooth. I love playing Assasin's Creed on the big tv, with surround sound, and my wii-controllers so I can jump around instead of being hunched over in front of the computer screen. Also works great for controlling your pc's media player like a remote control.

maybe it's not worth the fight. Why not just use a language that IS relevant rather than "struggling" to make relevant people use one that isn't?

For someone like me, who hated marshmallows, the experiment would have ended up being a bit different. I would have asked myself: Can I bear to eat one marshmallow now so that I don't have to eat two later on?