Posts by qtcoder

Relax, it's just Ubuntu 15.04. AARGH! IT'S FULL OF SYSTEMD!!!

Re: Good to see Unity slowly progressing to be usable

That's sad because Gnome 2 was one of ugliest things ever made.

Re: "now that it's well into Debian, Ubuntu really has no choice"

So did you file a bug against PulseAudio?

For me it has worked great. Before PulseAudio nothing worked.

Re: systemd? Do not want.

MATE? Fast, yes. Beautiful, no.

I'm still enjoying Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - the best LTS release ever. I must admit I'm a bit tempted to upgrade, though.

Re: systemd? Do not want.

So how is Steam working on your BSD? And how is your Slackware phone doing?

HELP! Windows Phone update 8.1 broke my Lumia

"We'll my Lumia 920 has been without issue on the developer preview for over a year but my Nexus 7 has been progressively bricked by Google's updates."

Yeah, right. I haven't had any issues with my Nexus 7 2012 regarding updates and it's now running Android 5.0 without any problems.

"It is probably worth noting that her first venture into Windows Phone OS was actually a Lumia 520. It bricked itself after a week. We replaced it with a 530 (it was on special offer) - it refused to charge after two weeks. Our first 630 arrived sealed but with no battery to be found. So actually, although she's been very happy with this 630 pretty much since it came out - it is technically our 4th Lumia in less than a year..."

Wow...you must be either insanely brand loyal or then just stupid.

Free Windows 10 could mean the END for Microsoft and the PC biz

Re: Free OS upgrades - Yawn.

"Or a locally installed version of Office that actually works. Or most decent games."

I use LibreOffice even at work, because it actually works. Most decent games? Steam.

Re: This won't end well for MS long term . . .

"That would be a neat trick given how fragmented the Linux desktop scene is."

In reality it's not that fragmented as 50% Linux users use Ubuntu alone. And a great percentage of the rest is covered by Ubuntu/Debian-derivatives so the same applications packages will work. No-one forces you to support ALL marginal distributions. It's just an excuse. Furthermore, all X11 applications will work on all desktop environments.

Now it's starting to seem like the Windows land is more fragmented: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows RT, Windows 10...

Re: Free OS upgrades - Yawn.

"Or silverlight to stream content etc etc"

Works perfectly with pipelight that actually uses the original Windows plug-in.

Re: Stop and think a bit, please...

"So while the EULA may not trump the Law, per-say I wish you nothing but the best of luck in fighting it. I gather MicroSofts Lawyers, are bigger then your Lawyers."

I'll give you an example. Selling your used Windows license is/was illegal according to the EULA, but is legal according to the law of Finland. Microsoft's lawyers cannot do anything about it.

PEAK WINDOWS 7 may well be behind us

"The Year Of Modern Windows Desktop" is the new "The Year Of Linux Desktop".