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The upgrade is easy, it is using it afterwards you may not like. Ubuntu used to have the slogan "Ubuntu: Linux for human beings." Now it should be, "Ubuntu: Linux for guinea pigs." I don't know how they manage to mess up the clock. I have to open it and close it twice for the date to refresh and show the correct date. Double clicking the sidebar icons doesn't always do the same thing. Sometimes I get a grid to select the window, other times it opens all windows in a stacked configuration. Still using it though.
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I would imagine so based on what I know about it, and I personally would need someone to rip my WM from my cold dead hands but the option is there
Yeah, consumer power is where its at.
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I recently did the opposite.

As of December, I'm all Linux. I run Ubuntu at home. I use Linux at work, except when I need to debug OS-specific browsers. I never want to go back; Gnome hits my sweet spot. I want an OS that starts up and becomes invisible until shutdown, and I never want to touch the mouse. Ubuntu's out-of-the-box installation is probably still unusable for people without a tech background, but I love it.

I spend most of my time in Docs, GMail, Google Calendar, lots of Chrome tabs for testing + looking up reference material, Emacs, IntelliJ, and lots of terminals. I almost never need other software, and when I do, it's an apt-get away.

I've had challenges - I've never seen Ubuntu completely work on a fresh install. My wireless failed on my newest desktop install. The sound on the two before that. They never bundle my wireless driver, so I drag my desktop over to my modem. My printer gives baffling error messages. My old webcam arbitrarily rezoomed as it pleased. Gnome 3 overrode the "invert colors" keyboard shortcut, which I use heavily. I needed to steal time on my girlfriend's iMac to run Portal 2. My supercharged Toshiba laptop freezes when running on battery power (may not be Linux's fault).

But these are most of the problems I've faced in the past two years. I lose a few hours of productivity every few months in exchange for massive productivity gains while working.
> but now, a few years on I can honestly say those problems are history

Believe me, they are not. They might be history for you, but not for everyone.

Many non-standard setups (using Jack, using pass-through, using bluetooth headsets) are still broken. Applications using Phonon have very different behaviors with or without PA.
KMix and pavucontrol still behave very differently from each other...
It depends if you want it for desktop or laptop. If it's for laptop, check https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/760131 - new kernels use a lot more energy. Until this gets fixed, I don't think it's worth updating.

Regarding the upgrade itself, yes - it's as easy as usual (click, click, click, .... done).
I started using Linux around 1998 at my university, and started using it on my own desktop later that year (with Red Hat 5.0).

I used it almost exclusively until 2006, when I finally had enough. At the time I moved to Windows and abandoned Linux on the desktop completely, but I've since switched to OS X.

I can relate to the author. I spent years messing around with my systems, which was fun for a while. Every 6 months I'd reinstall my desktop box with the lastest version of Red Hat (and then Fedora) and spend the next week or two filing bug reports in bugzilla, and patching some stuff.

But after a few years, what was a learning experience, becomes a permanent wound in your sound engineering sense. It just isn't possible that something that has an insane amount of bugs with every new release will ever be something reliable and usable. Not with so many regressions, never fixed problems, and unbelievably in-your-face issues.

I've tried to return, to see if any progress was made. About once a year I install the latest Ubuntu or Fedora, but every time it seems the same, or worse in some aspects.

My last test was Ubuntu 11.04 on an old Toshiba laptop from late 2005 that I still have. It used to work apparently fine with just the LCD brightness control not working, and later with the usual application quirks, bugs and crashes.

However, the latest version has "new" drivers for the ATI Radeon X300 graphics card, which non-working 3D acceleration that makes the default WM hang on login, and not even "glxgears" works anymore. Any attempts to disable hardware acceleration have failed (not only X doesn't have a configuration file by default anymore, but it also segfaults when trying to generate one with "X -configure" and ignores any option I set manually).

Aside from the X problems, stand-by no longer works. The machine just dies never to wake up again.

The problems just go on and on.

It isn't a usable machine for anything other than simple web browsing, and even there it has issues with flash, which stutters playing the simplest of videos, even though it doesn't peg the CPU.

I've used the knowledge I accumulated from these years for my work (where I have a bunch of Linux servers working just fine), but I say that Linux on the desktop won't ever amount to nothing, no matter how much that turd is polished.

It's even more sad if you think that while all this was going on in the Linux desktop, Apple has successfully launched an unix desktop that has been stable and usable for years. So it is possible and in a short timeframe, which means that Linux on the desktop is a failed experience.
Thanks Steven. I actually noticed many meetups (GitHub, Ruby and others) are held usually in SF? That's another point I'd be looking at for choosing a city.
The Bay Area has much better public transit than most of the rest of the US. So living without a car is very do-able. I currently live without a car someplace that doesn't have great public transit. Don't worry so much about your commute to your work. You do need to get there, but you also need groceries, the ability to shop for generally, and the ability to go out to eat -- at least if you live anything like I do. When looking for a place to live, consider how accessible grocery stores, eateries and other essentials are. For me, my commute to work is the longest trip I routinely make and it's no big deal. It would be a much bigger problem if I were not close to two shopping centers.

It's been a few years since I lived in the Bay Area, so that's about the limit of what I can tell you. Best of luck.
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I live in China but I am an American. My business partner and I intentionally decided not to pursue business here, instead focusing on an outsourcing model. The most obvious reasons are culture and language (I'm referring to the culture and language of your typical customer), but, at least for China, these aren't the biggest reasons.

The biggest reason is government/law. China likes to talk a lot about the rule of law but the rules are ambiguous and not everyone plays by the same rules. A lot of business here is ruled by who you know and how much back-scratching you can do. Even if we (my partner and I) were able to accurately understand language (we're coming close) and culture (this still needs more work), we would be at a huge disadvantage.

I am not so naïve to think that corruption doesn't exist elsewhere, but in China it is systemic. I know college grads who talked about paying someone for a job, the idea being that they will eventually make more money than they paid for the job. Thus the job isn't necessarily given to the highest qualified (or even baseline qualified) applicant, but rather to the person who can provide the greatest amount of financial gain for the gate keeper. This type of thinking is pervasive everywhere in society: your future customer will think like this too... which is why it's so hard to sell software here.

I don't have a problem with developing 关系 (relationships) with others. That's part of the recipe for any type of business transaction; having a good relationship with your clients/service providers just makes life better. But in China, it seems, even from my lowly perspective that the demands from this kind of game are extremely high. This is a cultural/language issue in itself, but it's for the business side.

The culture/language problem in relating to potential customers is very high, but even if that issue gets solved, the disadvantage that a Western (i.e. American/European) business faces in terms of understanding the business culture is so high that it seems very risky to try to enter the market here.
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Don Quixote by Cervantes, or Shogun by Clavell.
"It's even more sad if you think that while all this was going on in the Linux desktop, Apple has successfully launched an unix desktop that has been stable and usable for years. So it is possible and in a short timeframe, which means that Linux on the desktop is a failed experience."

You're comparing apples with pears :)

Apple design an OS for a supremely limited range of hardware. Your comparison isn't fair.
Apologies if I sounded rude. It's just that there has been increasing number of blog posts lately by Indian entrepreneurs comparing India with Silicon Valley and expressing overt pessimism. No offence was directed at you.
"And yet, I am also a very strong open source advocate"

Having an opinion about the miserable state of the Linux desktop has nothing to do with open-source advocacy. The success of many open-source projects including Linux itself (on everything but the desktop) is proof that the model works, and can produce quality software, often better than the proprietary alternatives.

I too am an open-source advocate, and I've met insult and disdain when I rant about the desktop "holy cow". There's just something there that makes people blind to the issues, and it's the same thing that makes the issues pile up and not get fixed. It just doesn't happen very often now because I seldom give enough of a crap about this long-lost battle to even enter the discussion.
And also, numbers like this are completely useless without something to compare them against. Like when company X announces they have cut their carbon emissions by 10 billion tonnes... but the press release doesn't mention that they are still outputting 300 trillion tonnes.
| Apple has successfully launched an unix desktop that has been stable and usable for years,

Apple got the huge advantage to have control over their hardware, which I believe makes all the difference.
Aren’t photographers also moaning?

The problem with catering to photographer is probably rather that they already have an awesome, lightweight and modern Photoshop replacement – even one made by Adobe – called Lightroom (and also Aperture by Apple).
Good points all, but Linux does not have the luxury of targeting cherry-picked hardware like Apple does.
I started using linux as my main OS around '98, and stopped doing that in '05. My reasons at the time were the same: consistently problematic driver/codec support, glitches that kept cropping up requiring low-level maintenance to resolve, and low-quality productivity software (office and image editing).

The irony is that I know it's no use to complain to people still "inside" the linux community about this, because I used to be one of them and I know what I answered to those people that complained: pick better hardware (so much choice), pick better software (even more choice), learn how to use the software (you luser), learn to build your own (with this easy 23 step guide), and finally the conversation-ender "works fine for me" (so your experience is irrelevant).

It was of course all a delusion on my part. As much as I claimed that it worked fine for me, it didn't. Not really, not 100%. So it became a trade-off, which deficiencies were worse? Those of windows, those of the mac, or those of linux? I ended up on the mac, but it's also not 100%. It still sucks just a little bit. All I've ever wanted is for there to be one OS that doesn't suck, and I'll pay top dollar (or euro) to use it, but I've never found it. I always have to pick the least sucky one, and that really sucks.
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No. Desktop Linux is designed to be device independent. OS X isn't.
You can always install a different kernel.
I've been a Gnome Linux desktop user since 1999. I'm still happy with it. Works great for me. No complaints.
Nobody is suggesting we abolish analytics as a practice, but it's misrepresenting the issues to suggest that content providers will die a sad death if they lose out on whatever benefits those querystring params provide.

Content providers already have feedburner for rss metrics (also, now by google) not to mention google analytics (nee urchintracker) and good ol' fashioned server access logs (which you can analyze with urchin proper (or mint, or what have you)).

I can see from a gut-reaction standpoint how you could write what you did, but aside from gawker (who notoriously uses analytics, c.f.[1]), how many legitimate content providers use analytics as anything other than a rough barometer for trends? The problems you describe are problematic for certain types of tabloid publishers (drudge report, ny post, etc.), but they are hardly addressed by a handful of querystring parameters.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_...
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There is TuxMobil (http://tuxmobil.org/), which is trying to be a repository of installation & configuration guides for various mobile devices. It was very useful to me in the past, but it doesn't seem to be up-to-date anymore.
If you want business support from Apple, don't use the consumer channels. http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/jointventure/ is the way in.

(As for the much-mentioned half-day of revenue, the store's also open on weekends)
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OK, how about this: if the linux community can tell me which subset of hardware it runs as well on as OS X, I'll buy that hardware and nothing else.

I want a linux laptop, with good battery life, stable suspend/resume, solid CPU performance, 3d graphics sufficient for light gaming, and a high-quality fit-and-finish. Which one do I buy?
Thought the same thing. I have an additional windows machine at work now and over many years, I honestly forgot how annoying that system is in day-to-day work. Top of the annoyances:

- Unresponsive (in general... win7 on a serious "desktop replacement" class laptop with loads of resources)

- Rebooting almost every day (application updates)

- Microsoft applications constantly crashing (mostly outlook)

- Randomly failing to hibernate

- Third-party support/driver applications which I should never hear about spamming me with questions (you scheduled a backup, do you really want to make a backup now? you scheduled disk maintenance, do you really want to run it? hey, I'd like to update, can I? oh, actually there are no updates available, kthnxbye. look at me, I'm updating the virus database!)

Unfortunately these are exactly the same reasons why I stopped using windows over a decade ago...
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> I just want to get some work done, I don’t want to waste my time debugging all kind of crap.

This basically sums up how I feel about using Linux on my home machine. I've used it for a couple of years now; I've reached the point in my life in which I want to use my time to work or entertain myself. And I don't have that much free time. It's a bad use of my time to constantly have to debug my OS; I could be using Windows 7 with VM(s) running Linux. I would have all of its benefits and I would be a lot more productive.
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I can sympathise with the difficulties the Genius Bar cause.

I had a standard MacBook - about 2 months old - when I noticed, whilst working on it on the train, after picking it up one of the screws from the underside had become loose and fallen out. I spent a while trying to screw it back in with my fingers on the train, just enough to stop it falling back out again.

When I got home I gave it a proper go with a screwdriver. Problem solved? Nope.

Over the next few weeks this kept happening - not just with that one screw but with about 3 or 4 (of the 8 in total). I got suspicious and took it straight to the Geniuses.

I've calculated the total time, per appointment, to be 2 hours - 10 minutes getting ready (shutting down, disconnecting displays and HDDs, etc), 40 minutes travel there, 15 minutes waiting, 15 minutes being served, 40 minutes travel back.

Appointment 1 (2 hours elapsed): Problem diagnosed, genius did the screwdrivering themselves.

Appointment 2 (4 hours elapsed): Screws still loose, genius took a look and put in an order for some new screws.

Appointment 3 (6 hours elapsed): Screws have arrived, genius replaces all the screws.

Appointment 4 (8 hours elapsed): Screws still coming loose. Genius 'resits' the MacBook underside.

Appointment 5 (10 hours elapsed): Still no luck. Genius orders new MacBook rubber base.

Appointment 6 (12 hours elapsed): New rubber base is fitted.

Appointment 7 (14 hours elapsed): Screws STILL coming loose. Genius orders replacement of base 'fitting unit'.

Appointment 8 (16 hours elapsed): Genius fits new base fitting unit. This takes 3 days so I can't use my MacBook at all during this time.

Appointment 9 (18 hours elapsed): Still no luck. Genius offers to replace MacBook. But, I don't have an entire system backup (I was using BackBlaze and had a hard drive crash the month before), so I have to fork out £80 for a HDD to set up Time Machine again.

Appointment 10 (20 hours elapsed): Backup taken. MacBook swapped.

Appointment 11 (22 hours elapsed): New MacBook doesn't boot properly. ANOTHER replacement...

... and finally I had a faultless MacBook again. All it took was almost an entire day of my life.
Shrug. Whatever. My home machine has been Gentoo since 2006/2007 or so, while there have been problems not directly caused by me (like corrupting a filesystem then recovering it, or unmasking packages when I shouldn't) most of them are solved by config options in the kernel, USE flags, or elsewhere. I don't remember needing to ever write a device driver. The only desktop experience I lack is certain big-name games I can only get from Steam, in which case I just boot into Windows 7, curse and mutter at the (in my view) crappy UI that gets in my way, before I launch the game I want. I don't really find a plethora of poor-quality apps either, at least in the sense that apps are noticeably poorer quality than apps-in-general. With Firefox, my gentoo version is significantly faster than Windows 7's. And more and more of my apps are moving online... Ah well. Goes back to programming, which he detests doing in Windows even with cygwin
What's always amusing about these discussions is the number of people that say either

"Try _distro_ - everything just works for me!"

and/or

"research before you buy!"

The 'it all works for me crowd'. I don't believe most of you most of the time. "Works" is in the eye of the beholder, and most of the time I've found that people who make that claim don't have anywhere near the same work style that I do.

Example: running audio from 4 different apps simultaneously all mixed together is a no-brainer under OSX/Windows, but is something most Linux users don't even dream of, because they've never even been able to try it (whoops, amarok is running, so I can't get AIM sound alerts, etc.) If they've never done it, the "works for me crowd" can't possibly know what 'works' means for them is light years away from what 'works' means to me.

"Research before you buy". Where and how? Show me an up to date list which shows even most of the compatibility aspects of stuff I can go buy in a store against recent distros. Googling around and finding that I can get Ubuntu 5.04 running on hardware from 2004 does me absolutely 0 good. Manufacturers don't always show you the exact chipsets used (and may often change chipset revisions and just ship new windows drivers in the box), and yet even if you do happen to know every single internal spec of hardware before you buy it, no one else will have bought it to determine if it works. Someone's gotta be first, unless the manufacturers would actually start certifying that "distro X" runs on particular configurations (which ain't gonna happen).

The majority of us live in a world where when we want a computer we're going to go to a local store and buy something. If Linux users want their stuff to be more widely adopted, they need to adapt to that reality. I suspect most Linux users don't really care, and are happy being 'cutting edge' and compiling new drivers to test stuff out. Really, it's an exciting and interesting way of life for some people, but one which I and many others eventually outgrow.
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I'd be fine if any of the criticisms I listed were the content of this article. They weren't, they wee an afternote in the last sentence. Instead the author decided to go on a nonsensical rant that made his biases plainly evident.
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Sure, I just thought that if someone asks whether the update is easy, he won't be up for kernel changes :)
I would say, do some research :) I won't deny using Linux requires a greater investment of time than many other platforms. Whether it's worth that investment is up to you.

If you do want to make the change, you might as well get used to the disparity now ;)
Also, forgot to mention the brilliant ending to the story. All this was happening around the same time Gizmodo and Engadget were having fun reporting "emails from Steve Jobs".

I emailed a copy of all my Genius Bar woes to sjobs@apple.com - nothing for 3 weeks, when one morning I awoke to a phone call from my local Apple Store. They said they'd heard about my troubles 'via Cupertino' and promised me if anything ever went wrong again, I'd get a full refund...!
This is why I'm an OS X user. I'm not particularly bullish on OS X and find some of its guts a bit disappointing, but it's the only UNIX with a good UI that will run a significant share of the best apps out there. Yet you still get all the POSIX joy and if you strip it down, an experience that's much how Linux should be. What confuses me is why anyone would switch from Linux to Windows if they do anything where Linux had the upper hand?
Yeah, and I love that half the posts are praising its lightweight nature while the other half are complaining about "obvious" features that it doesn't have :)
I use linux because it's much closer to the the Free Software ideals. The price to pay is the occasional quirk. But that put aside, it's a very pleasant way to stay close to one's ideal (well, I hould remove those NVIDIA driver to live up to them :-), I'm no RMS :-)