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I agree with you, but there is a flip side. More people might start asking themselves what the point of Windows is, since everything they need is available on Linux. "Why bother pa…

Threats of job security might not be the only threat they see. In a society with a lot of automation where you need a high level of education just to get a job, taking in a lot of …

I would recommend that you just use the US layout when coding. It's not like you need åäö when writing source code. The only time I use the Swedish layout is when writing emails or…

Kickstarter campaigns often charge people extra money for getting access to Alpha and Beta builds. People are impatient, many want stuff sooner rather than later, so they pay for i…

Fair enough, I'm surely being overly sensitive here. It's just that, here in Sweden at least, being 'lactose intolerant' suggests there is something wrong with you, when the truth …

From my own experience, I'd say that the right amount of salt is highly dependent on your diet. For example, when I restrict my carb intake I notice I need to add more salt to my f…

I don't like the term "lactose intolerant". It implies that having difficulty digesting lactose is differentiating you from some loosely defined norm. In fact, the opposite is true…

Just put Linux on it. Seriously. My sister and I have the same Zenbook, and while my trackpad runs like a dream in Elementary OS, her trackpad is among the worst I've ever had the …

Seriously. Copyright infringement _is not stealing_. It has even been decided in court: http://falkvinge.net/2013/12/23/reminder-1-copyright-monopol... Stop abusing the word.

Fair enough. But I would also wager that a vast, vast amount of piracy is of big studio content, and not the small startup-like businesses you are arguing for.

Calling it stealing is wrong. The producer of an item doesn't lose the original item when someone _copies_ it, compared to e.g. stealing somebody's car. At most, you could argue th…

I'm surprized nobody has provided a link to Dell's XPS 13 "Developer edition" laptop. http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt... I bought one after using an As…

> What prevents me from considering Linux as a desktop or laptop OS includes: horrible battery life times (worse than half for a friend's thinkpad when compared to it running Windo…

This can be fixed by editing your pulseaudio settings: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Automaticall... I do agree, though, that it is weird that this is not enabled…

This, so much this. People say I'm weird when I say I don't follow, nor care to follow the mainstream news. It seems hard for them to understand that I gain nothing from "keeping u…

1. When I set up Git on my Linux server only the user that initiated the repo had access to it. It was too locked down, seeing as external users didn't even have read/cloning permi…

> We decided to leave it when we realized any individual coder could wipe out our local repository with a wrong command. What? 1) You can configure your repo so only select users m…

No, I would say showing screenshots from all "supported" platforms is a good idea. The cost is very low, and preventing people from feeling marginalized is a win for you and your s…

Yeah, sorry, but that's you. I can bring my own anecdotal evidence to the table and say that for me, compilation, linking and algorithms were very secondary to the thrill of typing…

I never understood why people usually rush to board the plane, only to end up sitting in a cramped airplane chair and breathing stuffy air. I usually opt to sit and wait outside th…

Wheeler might not be the problem. But the Obama White house isn't the root of the problem, either. The American two party duocracy is. Sadly, it seems that the only viable option i…

Actually, the world is getting to the height of how humans were pre-agriculture, at around 6 feet. As Asia and ancient Rome has proven, high carb low protein diets do not make for …

Finally! While I like GOG, other distributors like Steam, humble bundle and desura have Linux support, so I've bought games from them instead. I'm glad GOG decided they want my bus…

All my computers run UEFI if possible, and all of them run Linux. I have no problems with UEFI whatsoever; in fact, I think it's a nice improvement to the dated BIOS technology. Th…

You inadvertently proved his point: "This item is not available in your country".