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I use a 28" 4k monitor with ubuntu 14.04 and it works great(with an nvidia card). One issue is that in gnome 3 the UI scaling cannot be set per monitor so that if you are using a m…

My biggest frustration with Linux development is how poor it has made windows development env look in comparison. Every time I have to fire up a windows VM to do some work for some…

Try the Asus Zenbook UX305, everything works out of the box with Ubuntu and it's as thin as a Macbook Air but more powerful and with a ridiculously high res screen.

A big issue for me is the completely unnecessary size of most of the products they provide. Why are SQL Server, Visual Studio and Windows itself so big? It takes almost no time at …

Try UbuntuGnome 14.04 LTS, I use it daily and can highly recommend it. I've tried a ton of different OS and UI and always keep coming back to UbuntuGnome

fair point, when I say "really gets it" I mean this is a huge step forward in comparison to the vast majority of enterprise clients that mandate IE. He knows IE is broken and the e…

Not to be overly negative but if I had to guess the extensions system will be hobbled and sub-par. This is just based on my years of experience with IE and other MS products. If it…

Unfortunately yes, but one of our enterprise clients has just mandated Chrome only for all their internal apps(their new head of IT really gets it). Another one of our enterprise c…

News organisations are already obligated to print retractions when they make mistakes and asking a questions(although it is often used by the media as weasel words) is different to…

Although it's slightly different as I am Australian so it is a different legal system I have strongly believed for a long time that lying for personal gain should be a crime. If it…

I have owned a couple of System76 machines and they have always been pretty good, I currently have the Darter and I have no complaints. If you want something small and portable my …

I have noticed a drop in stability and quality recently. I personally have never owned an apple product, I only use Linux, but I do need to interact with iDevices fairly frequently…

UbuntuGnome 13.04 for my day to day and Ubuntu 12.04 on my servers and through Vagrant for dev

It's mainly things like the lack of a good package manager for provisioning, inexplicably large installers, sub-par automation, inscrutable GUI's packed with useless features, havi…

I don't think people hate MS, they just don't even think about them. Whenever I am at tech events(usually web related ones) MS isn't openly criticised, they're not even discussed a…

100% agree, I have extensive experience with both and I would never recommend .net to anyone. Unfortunately many of the larger companies I do work for will only use it. In general …

Having been a dev for 10 years, 5 of which were almost exclusively using .net and the other half using open source web tech I feel like I can add something to the discussion. I've …

I don't use Ubuntu because I'm cheap, I use it because it's the best tool for the job. I think in general Ubuntu users are going to be developers(read have expendable income to spe…

I have worked remotely for companies in other countries for extended periods of time quite a bit. I'm Australian but have worked remotely for companies in Canada from Australia for…

The only real similarity is the superficial UI styling, the underlying OS is actually Ubuntu Linux where as OSX in based on BSD Unix.

I think it's also generally a misconception that people pirate things because they are cheap and don't want to spend the money. I think most people would be happy to pay if it matc…

For me the requirements would be: A flat monthly fee of less than $120AUD An open API so apps like XBMC, Boxee, Plex etc. can integrate the service. NO ADVERTISEMENTS! - this is a …

The coffee here in Victoria, AU is amazing, I've had coffee in probably around 15 - 20 different countries and while I get the odd good coffee here and there the consistent quality…

Really interesting article. I spent 6 months living in Kathmandu a few years ago, it's an amazing place but has a lot of serious economic problems(among other things). It's great t…