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I can happily recommend Kubuntu.

For those thinking that it's not stable, it is. Kubuntu (or more precise KDE) is stable since 10.10, so those rant's are over.

For those thinking that GTK applications can't fit in KDE, there's a new GTK Theme oxygen-gtk which gives the same look and feel to them. Also there is QtCurve, etc etc...

And the notifications from GTK applications are shown as native KDE notifications. All of them are on one place.

KDE is a usable environment, highly configurable and for those saying "it's too bloated and full of glossy things yada yada" if you spend half an hour you can make it as minimalist as you wish.

I use Kubuntu on a daily basis, and I use a lot of GTK apps in it too, including GIMP, DeaDBeeF, Firefox, etc etc...

And, one of the most noteworthy things in the new Kubuntu are the new Muon Package Manager - something of a Kubuntu alternative of the new Ubuntu Software Center, and second, a package named Low-Fat Settings can be installed, with settings for computers with lower performance. More on this stuff here: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/11.10-release
I believe the USPS snark is that they are paying pension and benefit costs for mail carriers that haven't been born yet. How unusual, congress screwed something up. The cynic in me is yelling "conspiracy!"
Reminds me of this old story:

A religious scholar was telling his wife about the interesting discussion in class one day.

"We were attributing the reason for removing the chicken's legs before cooking it for soup."

"Reb Schalcter said it was to follow the dietary laws laid out in Leviticus."

"Reb Abraham said it was to help us retain our compassion because an innocent animal had to suffer for our benefit."

"Reb Zalman said it was because the legs were most likely to be diseased."

"I said that it was to remind us that the world, like the chicken, is broken."

"What do you think?"

His wife responded, "So that it fits in the pot."
For #1, you can use ALT-`. I didn't know about it until I saw it here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboar...

For #3, you can also use CTRL-ALT-T to start multiple terminals, and then CTRL-ALT-NUMPAD # to tile them around in your workspace. It is not the best workflow, however.
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My same reaction. Completely captures my feeling
Ah, something you have to use a command line to install? Not exactly a good counter-point.
> You have choices and if the default does not suite you, change it.

Why do so many techies feel like Ubuntu owes them something, and when they don't like a design choice, it's a personal insult? I almost like Unity, but I think I like the direction gnome 3 is going better. No big deal, I can use either, and I don't have to rant about it.

(that username sounds familiar - Hi from Boston ;)
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JUST DON'T TAKE AWAY MY RESET BUTTON! ;)
If it assumes that the user can only click shiny buttons, there's no way for that user to acquire skills and climb the Dreyfus skill levels. It holds "novices" in place, while actively hindering anyone already at "advanced beginner" or "competent" levels. "Proficient" or "expert" users will just throw it out.
> Suck

> Retard

Stopped reading.
Why I’ve finally had it with my Linux server and I’m moving back to Windows
What passes today as economic analysis is, in truth, modeling in which the assumptions and the data are implicit and only the conclusions are expressed. Moreover, projections are frequently based upon simple extrapolation of a constructed macroeconomic indicator and rather than exploring the underlying structure. It seems to me that "politics and power and sex and violence" and resource depletion,innovation, FUD, and all the rest is amenable to modeling and that a composite economic model based on systematic analysis is likely to better reflect reality than the process used now.

Asimov's Foundation Series books are enlightened works of science fiction, but they are fiction, not fact. I find is strange that you cite them as if they were seminal works in societal modeling.
I am sick of rants and/or dire predictions. No one cares as much as you think.
Have you ever used Linux? I don't even need to do that on Gentoo, my main system. Right click, format, choose a format type, format. Exactly the same as Windows.

Ed: from your other comment in this thread, I think you haven't. I don't think anyone has ever been required to use the command line to install things in Ubuntu (that are in the package manager which contains most things most users care about), but my memory only goes back to Dapper.
Then those people want Chromebooks or something.

Linux is no where near ready for those people.

Yesterday my boss, who has been a hardcore Linux user for decades, managed to change his theme in Gnome3 (Fedora) to some weird high-contrast thing, just by clicking on his desktop somehow. We actually couldn't find the place to change it back in the few minutes I was helping him. It wasn't in the menu accessible from right-clicking on the menu. It wasn't anywhere we found in the stupid new System Settings screen. We searched in the Activities window-thing for "Theme" and came up with nothing.

I can't imagine what would have happened if it was one of the people I used to support at my old job. shudder
A lack of security updates for an old system, when it happens, is forcing an update.
Today: Official Release of Google+ Widget
Can anyone explain how this is different from what Qt was before? Has Nokia spun it off, Mozilla-style?
Fossil 1.20 released: now with symlinks and side-by-side diffs
Summary: "I hate change. Because this is different than what I personally am used to, it can't be useful for anyone anywhere, and was probably created specifically to annoy me."

"It assumes you don't care what is going on in any programs except the one you currently have focus on."

Aside from the really nice features for automatic window sizing and positioning that were introduced with it (with both mouse and keyboard bindings!) and the fact that window management otherwise works exactly as it did previously, sure.

"Unity hates Google Chrome (the browser I use most) so much, it buried it three levels deep in a ridiculously oversimplified, slow-loading, nonsensical menu system."

Or, you know, you could add it to the launcher. Or make it your default browser, in which case it has an enormous button right in the dash. (But right, you're not "a complete retard who can only click shiny buttons".)

"It assumed I wanted every LibreOffice program in my application dock"

Oh noes! Sensible default launchers in the default configuration, my heavens! If only you could right-click on those and remove them or drag them out of the launcher. Oh right, you can.

Yadda yadda, I don't have the patience to address every single one of these one by one. But they all boil down to "this is different than what I had previously so it must be terrible for everyone". ("I am not complaining that Unity is different from traditional GNOME." Er, yes you are. That's exactly what this rant is.)

It took me a week or so to get used to it, but I really like Unity now. It works better for me than GNOME 2 ever did. I just get tired of people insulting those who have different preferences. If you want GNOME 2, great! Feel free to keep using it. But demanding that other people support you for free and never advance is childish and petulant.
more easily understandable and manageable cookie management.

a little button with a picture of a cookie that popped open a window showing what cookies were being sent on a page, and what those values are, with options to kill them.

that alone would make it easier for people to understand what the hell data is being tracked about them, feel more in control, and (possibly) prevent stupid legislation from being pushed written by people who haven't the vaguest clue about what cookies are.
#1 Super-tab does the per window version of alt-tab

#2 Why waste any more vertical screen space

#3 Ctrl-Alt-T > New Terminal, then Ctrl-Shift-T new terminal tab (or Ctrl-Alt-T again for new terminal)
> I do think that doing a PhD in 'em is very unlikely to be a good career move

Outstanding hackers have the luxury that what they love overlaps with what makes good money.

If you love literature, and know that you are taking on a career where, if you are very lucky, you will make $55k in an isolated town, I see nothing foolish about starting a Ph.D. in the subject.
I started using Unity because 11.10 broke my Gnome 2 + xmonad config. It's actually rather nice and has a fairly complete set of key bindings for window management tasks.
Dairy Queen has physical locations, serving that specific location and market. It takes time for the company to do research on specific market segment and why there needs to be a physical location there. It also takes time to build, train, and hire employees in order to service that market.

Groupon: user is only sustainable based on type of deals. business model easily replaceable by any upcoming player.

plus there's so many things going inside the company right now...Groupon's own sales team is suing the company? come on, what does that speak to the company itself? the whole company is made up of salespeople!!
Nothing is prevented. sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
Interesting to know that the rebels are using Bluetooth on their phones to share videos and images...
I have 2 requests but they are pretty big ones

1. Full Device api / OS integration, basically phonegap supported natively in browsers, some support is slowly trickling though, I never understood why its taking such a long time though

2. Fix whatever performance problems make building RIA really damn hard. Some people say this problem is inherent to javascript + dom and cant be fixed, I am not sure, I do know browsers were making amazing steps over the last year or 2 and have mitigated it a lot, but its not quite there, in particular GC stalls are incredibly hard to work around.
Which is usually a four digit code, since you have to type it in so often? That's about 10,000 combinations. It's trivial to go through all the combinations. Even if it took a second per combination, it'd be cracked under three hours.

A more sensible way to encrypt a device is to use a separate long code that only has to be typed in at boot. Using a screen lock as an encryption key is just not effective.
I think Steve would say the better question is "What should Apple do?" He tried his best to infuse his vision into the DNA of the company, and I think that will live on with the whole Apple U thing they're starting.
It's amazing to me how many people write articles bashing Unity and openly admit right in the article that they only used it for less than a day before deciding it was terrible. How long did it take you to reach your current level of productivity in your current WM?

As it happens, Unity has a ton of convenient keyboard shortcuts, and it does take some time to get used to them. I was also inefficient the first day I tried it, but I gave it a fair chance and I actually feel I'm more productive now than I was in Gnome.

People complain about it being "dumbed down", but a lot of the features seem geared toward power users to me. For instance, menu bars at the top: how often do you actually find yourself clicking on a menu item with the mouse vs. using the keyboard shortcut? 99% of the time I use the shortcut, so it ends up saving a lot of screen real estate taking the menu bars out of all the windows. That's just one example, but there are little touches like that all over the place in Unity.
I actually like Unity. Was disappointed when 11.10 Unity didn't work well on my laptop. Fortunately recent updates fixed that.

I think the main difference may be that I swap back and forth between a Linux desktop and OSX desktop. Switch between OSX and Unity seems to be pretty intuitive.

Note: I bought my first Mac this year. So I made the switch to OSX and Unity around the same time. Maybe that was actually helpful. Before my Mac, I generally bounced back and forth between Gnome and KDE based on the distribution I was using at the time. I also primarily work with a Terminal. For work lots of ssh, for home use lots of vim for coding.
Yeah, unfortunately 50% of the companies present at that thing were glorified advertising agencies so despite the 1 or 2 "startups for social change" the vast majority didn't look very different ("morally") from the investment bankers.
There is a ppa that makes the Unity-2D launcher the same size as the icons: ppa:lucazade/ppa at https://launchpad.net/~lucazade/+archive/ppa

I use it and have no problem or crashes.
Agreed. Also... do I know you?
You have no idea what you're talking about
gnome-do works perfectly well under 11.10, unity has keyboard shortcuts for window placement (e.g. Ctrl-Alt + Numpad e.g. Ctrl-Alt-6 = window to the RHS of the screen)

IMO unity much improved in 11.10 over 11.04
> What most techies don't get is that this is an extremely reasonable assumption. Well, to be more fair, that most users don't care.

I don't think he's complaining that they try to make it easier for people for whom this assumption holds true. There should be emphasis on only. From what I can gather, Unity seems to make it impossible (or at least highly inconvenient) to do anything but click on shiny buttons - and that's retarded.
I've been using Ubuntu for 5 years and I absolutely love Ubuntu 9. Every time I have to use windows vista/7 or osx I want to tear my hear out.

Unity is basically adopting the most annoying parts of OSX, namely that windows aren't individually referenced in the desktop toolbar for easy one click switching and that switching desktops or 'spaces' is a multiple step process with no thumbnail preview, things that have been working perfectly well in Linux since the beginning of the 1990s.

They shouldn't release a product until these are fixed and certainly not impose it on users. It's like they assumed we wouldn't notice because we're all Apple fanboys used to a slow and ineffective UX.
That dock-fixed-to-the-left thing is really annoying. It's an infinitely large button which wants to expand over my actual target 9 times out of 10.

If I'm using an app and my cursor hits the left edge, what's a reasonable assumption? That I want to do something in the app, or that I want to switch apps? The implicit assumption has always been that I'm interested in my current task. That's why the File menu, the Back button, the application toolbar (if you're into that sort of thing) are there.

It's completely unreasonable to just assume that if my cursor happens to drift out of the active window while I'm seeking a target within it, then it's ok to expand a system window over the target I'm actually looking for to force me to wait and re-seek while it hides again.

About the only way this could be more annoying is if it were on the right, next to the scroll bar.
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OK, but this is not "real" until you have end-to-end solar, as in starting from sand and ending up with installed solar panels, with every step along the way solar-powered, no fossil fuels, not even in the truck to deliver them to the end user. Because what we do have right now is end-to-end fossil. The main use of fossil fuels now should be bootstrapping the next level, not everyday use.
This is a purely philosophical debate, it's not to say the testing ecosystem in clojure isn't well done:

http://clojure-libraries.appspot.com/category/137002

my 2 cents
I agree the system is flawed here. I think Stack Exchange solves this problem nicely with their daily 200 point cap. This way it forces you to make a time investment in addition to posting quality content.
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Synaptic/USC. Now stop talking about stuff you obviously have no clue about.
+1

The only bad thing I can think of is that I usually run kde with all the special effects turned off and the look of apps and whatnot in this mode is a bit of an ugly grey. However, if you do turn on all the fancy graphical stuff, I would say KDE looks just as good as anything out there (for linux).
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Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents.
Sounds like Chicago has a great community!

But you can't cite bumping into Dave McClure as evidence of anything other than Dave McClure travels, A LOT. ;)
Yep, several:

1. If the windows are maximized, unmaximize them by clicking on a button or by dragging the window down from the top of the screen. Arrange as you please.

2. Drag a window to the left or right side of the screen. It will resize and snap to the edge of the window taking up 50% of the display. (Great for having two windows side-by-side.)

3. Use Ctrl+Alt+[number pad key] to place windows in multiple configurations. E.g. Ctrl+Alt+9 will place a window in the upper right corner. Pressing it multiple times will cycle through various sizes.

Plenty of consideration was taken for larger screens -- Unity has much better support for them than GNOME 2 did. It might need to be advertised a bit better.
And the banks are insured by the FDIC and rely on the stability of the US bond market. It's a viscous cycle. Lol. It doesn't mean that the bitcoin can't be viable. I just don't think it can be as grandiose a currency as some people are envisioning
While I agree that to this day Unity still has a long way to go, I firmly believe that in the long run all the effort and focus Canonical is devoting to UX could become ubuntu's unique selling point.

What is left to see is how long this "long run" will be, but as a rule of thumb and as far as Unity goes I think it is more fair to consider non LTS releases as experimental builds.

I am very positive about initiatives such as http://design.canonical.com/2010/11/usability-testing-of-uni...

The sole existence of a design group within Canonical [1] singles them out - AFAIK - from other major distro vendors.
In a way, though I generally dislike this kind of comparisons, I can see ubuntu as the potential osx/nextstep of the linux ecosystem: full blown unix user space coupled with a distinctive, reliable look & feel and a consistent UX.

I know many long time *nix users that switched to osx for this reason [2] and I'd like to see a linux distro able to appeal this audience. Actually I would really
like to know if there exist studies or data points that show whether such a market share
indeed exists.

Ultimately the only thing I can say is kudos to Canonical for the courage shown in taking a somewhat radical decision and keep up the good work :)

[1] design as in UX and interaction desing, not limited to artwork or wm themes.
[2] this is not intended as a statistically significant statement.
jetty uses non-blocking i/o internally as well, just by the time it hits the servlet layer it's thread/request.
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At its heart, design is a risk, because it looks to create what isn't. Most businesses are focussed on improving what is. The unknown is unquantifiable, and doesn't fit well into a spreadsheet
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1. Personally I click on the launcher more that use alt-tab these days. However there is a new key combo Alt-` as shown
here: http://youtu.be/XHFNnygpvcM

2. You could set the Launcher to Autohide

3. Middle mouse on the launcher icon for another window.
And this is the real truth of the matter. The above posters are correct, you do need knowledge of something to run it, but understand that business knowledge and experience is ALSO that "something".

Once you obtain certain scale, you can't do everything. It's equally ignorant to think an engineer can run a business top to bottom as it is to think an MBA can fully run an engineering company.

I so often read here MBA used pejoratively, but remember that most small businesses fail because they're run by people who have skills but no idea how to run a business. A major corporation needs both (and more!) skills.
Ironic, then, that Kickstarter is fending off a patent suit.
Also known as Poor Man's Profiling (see http://poormansprofiler.org/ or http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Apoorm... as it seems the site's down).

It's a pretty good technique, actually.
By the comments, that's not helping most people, apparently. The solution for them is to uninstall iOS5 beta by restoring the phone.
Actually, I agree with it. I'm a Linux noob, and even I (the target idiot?) can't find anything in the latest version of Ubuntu without having to constantly search. The older version was quite discoverable for me though. I'm also looking around for something more useable.
Not having a coherent pitch is a defining element of OWS.

Instead, the whole point of OWS is to make sure OWS persists, in the hopes that people keep hearing their complaint that the government is in cahoots with big business. (whatever benefit may arise from this)

The moment someone sets up a unified OWS platform, with demands, the movement will be over. (for good or ill.)

The funny thing to me is that their core message (government is corrupt and helping big business) is essentially the core complaint of the Tea Partiers, as well.
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Gubuntu. Luckily, Unity starts with 'U' already, so everything works out in the end.

>Switch to Linux Mint, which is Debian-based and appears to use the "old" GNOME 2

Linux Mint isn't Debian-based, but Ubuntu-based. He may be referring to Linux Mint Debian Edition, which tracks Debian Testing.
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The life and times of eBay does not say good things about the IT-challenged MBA.

Speaking of Yegge and Amazon:
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/ebay-patents-10-clic...

Amazon has continued to grow in simplicity and coverage, including ease of purchase with third-parties (eBay's dealer market). Meanwhile, buying on eBay is still a huge pain, with no integration between eBay and its own subsidiary.
Also, to start a new instance of a window you can middle-click on its icon in the launcher. This works with more than just the terminal (browsers, word processors, etc.).
FileSystemAPI support in Firefox, and the ability to tell the operating system to open a file stored with FileSystemAPI using the default registered native application (it must be possible to get notifications when this file changes, for syncing to the server). This would enable the DropBox use-case, where a user could drag an excel file into a web app, click a link in the web app to edit it with Microsoft Excel, and then press Save in Excel, and the web app would sync a diff with the server.

Add a Javascript API to enable a web app to open a TCP socket (as opposed to WebSocket) with the origin server.
Hey, I see you're new here.

You may be wondering why your comment got down-voted. It's not that we're a community of jerks, I promise. People just really prize a high signal-to-noise ratio here, and while we appreciate that you enjoyed the link, a better way to express that without adding noise is to up-vote the comment.

In general, you should post comments here only when the comment will provide value to someone else. That's largely the rubric by which it will be judged.
I'd fear giving Ive too much power/ego/etc, he needs to be grounded to do what he does. At the other end of the scale, it has been said he wants to be in UK more (duh :P), don't know what has changed there.
One interpretation: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ljtxb/starting_...
>How long did it take you to reach your current level of productivity in your current WM?

Half an hour to learn the keybinds, because tiling window managers (XMonad) are extremely intuitive.
You don't even need a command line to install random packages you've downloaded. Just double-click them, the system package manager will show you what's inside and ask if you want to install it.