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Man, the Linux crowd really sucks. Why am I even reading these comments? I'm of the opinion that the Linux desktop has never been better, and I really enjoy using modern Linux desktops a lot more than I used to. To all those developers that made it possible for us to use this stuff on our computers with no strings attached: thank you. Ubuntu 18.04 is a great collection of these achievements (like many other current L…
I tend to be pretty critical of Linux because I do genuinely believe there's a lot of stuff in Linux that's really bad. Would I ever give it up and switch to Windows/Mac? No, never in a million years. Compared to modern Windows 10, Gnome's UX is masterful. Linux has actually come pretty far - set up is still annoying, and some problems are still unnecessarily difficult to solve, but for the most part once you get eve…
Anecdotal, but I just recently installed Ubuntu 17.10 on one of my drives because I got tired of windows' shenanigans (was in a forced-update, boot-failure, version-reset loop) and wanted to get work done. I'm no noob to linux (have used it on and off as my main OS for the last 6 years), so I definitely didn't expect it to be a cakewalk, but after installing and 5 minutes of installing software all user input just stopped working completely. It happens about 10 minutes in every boot now. I'm sure there's a fix, but God damn it that's not something I should have to fix (or even think about). Linux on the desktop (much less laptop) has a very, very long way to go. Complexity and options are not always virtuous.
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Your analogy makes no sense to me. When evaluating applicants, the only metrics used should be how well the applicant can do his or her job. Giving applicants preference for having some blessed sex or political leanings is generally a recipe for disaster.
To explain: certain groups are underrepresented in sought-after professions, at colleges, etc. It is rather widely agreed that this is a result of historical injustices, such as racist or sexist policies and habits not allowing women or non-whites to study at colleges, or get certain jobs. That is the bank robbery: these groups were robbed of opportunity. The remedial measures are programs such as the one discussed h…
First of all, it's difficult to identify who the "bank robbers" were/are.
For example, I'm irish- my ancestors never owned slaves, and were frequently discriminated against, despite being "white". But being white, I still get lumped in with the bank robbers. Don't you dare tell me what money is or isn't mine based on the color of my skin.
Second, the bank robber analogy is a bit "sins of the father"-esque for me. That's a scary slippery slope. Should we make modern Germans pay Israel reparations, 70 years later? Should we promote Jews over Germans in Germany, to make up for the momentum lost? Or do we only help "struggling races"? And if so, who decides what is a struggling race? Isn't the entire idea of saying an entire race is struggling and needs (un)fair advantages a bit like the bigotry of incompetence?
Your viewpoint has a lot of problems of its own.
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Switch your remote access to x2go, you'll thank me.
What's the benefit? The best I previously found was nomachine since it has clients for everything. But it's still so laggy over a remote connection, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
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What's the benefit? The best I previously found was nomachine since it has clients for everything. But it's still so laggy over a remote connection, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
I was using freeNX, x2go is better. Nomachine is a paid product, it's head and shoulders better then VNC. You didn't experience that? The newer (non OSS) version supports UDP streams for media. It's free to use, but I've not tested it since it limits the number of users and I can stream ok with X2go.
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FreeBSD
So I assume then that FreeBSD has the perfect architecture, uses the perfect language and it's bug tracker is still empty waiting for the first bug to be opened?
On the perfect part, I am not intellectually competent to answer that ...
Ubuntu 18.04 is the first release to include my app, PikoPixel (pixel-art editor), in its repository (universe): https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/gnustep/pikopixel.app I had to tweak PP's packaging to get it to appear in the Ubuntu Software app, so I can provide a bit of info about this part of the article: My assumption for now is that the Ubuntu Software application only shows updates for packages that were insta…
When I tried an early beta (of 10.04) I was unable to find the mosquitto client tools in the software store. Neither does it show up in either list you linked. I guess it was left out for other reasons. At one point there was a setting in the software store to show all available packages. It has been removed. At present I am only aware of command line tools for finding S/W that includes all available packages. (`snap…