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Living Room / Re: Fedora/Microsoft - Embrace, Extend, Assimiliate
« on: June 01, 2012, 10:02 AM »
Soldering? lol.
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^ Above that was said to be theft (and never answered), and then you dovetailed on the conversation with your comments, which was the reason for the question.What type of answer you're expecting from me or zaine? Are you going to get into argument just because zaine's wrong choice of word "theft". Or you just want to disagree because I agree with zaine's view despite his wrong choice of word "theft"? You know very well that was wrong choice of word for explaining unfair practice of the hardware vendors. Are we doing some orthography bickering here? I mean your sarcastic reply was uncalled for especially when you know that more than 99% of the laptop manufacturers install windows by default and don't give options for linux or freedos for which your sarcastic reply was -"you don't like it, don't buy it". So basically your argument was for the sake of it. You are expecting that people should not even express their views towards such vendors policies and just don't buy the computer at all if they don't like vendor policies(which makes 99% of the computer vendors). I must say that reply was in more of rude taste. Whatever...
Did try to install LM Maya with .iso on DVD/RW. It runs but won't install. Apparently it might be because i have to burn it to a DVD/R only. Whatever!dantheman, How about making ext3 or ext4 partition with Linux Mint installer and then installing in it?
There's no "autohide" option for the top panel, but transparency and other tips make it okay.There is a reason why Unity has no autohide or hide option for top panel. If you notice that unity offers Mac OS style global menu for the applications and the close/maximize buttons are also on that panel. That is why they dont want you to use that option right out of the box, so that you can break display manager. You can do that ofcouse but it requires a bit tweaking. See the image below to understand why top panel is not hidden and how it is used in global menus and window controls.
If Ubuntu (no.1 in rank) continues to behave this way, i don't know how they can seduce more Windows users.Goal of linux is not to seduce people to use it. Neither canonical (makers of ubuntu) or other linux communities want that. They want linux to have more choices or flavors in the way people want. For example, I like unity but you definitely will love KDE because you want it to work like windows. Gnome 3 is loved by people who like simple and minimalistic and quick desktop. XFCE and Cinnamon, MATE and LXDE are the distros for people who like menu style accessibility. So you have more than 11 display manager choices to choose from. No need to seduce users to come to use them. You can use any as per your choice.
In that case, is Gnome 3 the way to go for a true Linux experience?There is no such thing like true linux experience. You can use xfce and feel comfortable. Or you can experiment like me and love unity. Or you can use gnome 3 for your quick usage and eye candy desktop. Like this each person has it's own goal for linux desktop. So like windows or apple, you don't have one goal shared by all users but different choices to in almost everything you do with linux. When you understand this freedom, you get that true experience. Eye candy stuff with compiz effects and few desktop tricks is not the way of linux. It is more of windows or apple way.
I think the real reason MS want to dump Aero is so that Metro doesn't look completely pants (it still does in my opinion but if you have a nice looking desktop it actually makes Metro look even worse).
What can guarantee it won't happen to Linux too?Linux has it's own set of security issues if you allow it. Script kiddies, google it. So yes, it is possible to have security issues in linux too but not like windows which makes system unstable or like apple even for using anti-virus products. This is the reason you should take care while downloading scripts from the Internet before you run on your terminal. Also avoid unsafe or untrusted repositories.
LM Debian is supposed to be the future.
Guess the future isn't here yet...
The installation process automatically assigns the amount for swap.This is where you have to fix things. Installation process can't decide the right amount of the Swap for you. That is for you to decide because you know the configutation better than the installer. Installers only check for minimum required disk space and RAM. Always assign swap space more than what installer tells you to do.
No one makes you upgrade the Windows OS you have.
Then i decided to give LinuxMint's latest Maya Cinnamon edition a try.
Same problem.
Intel Duo ; 2.52Ghz ; 4G memory with 500G hard disk.This system is capable of running even modern window managers in linux. I am not sure what makes you think it is slow unless ofcourse you're using buggy build. I don't know why you're using (often) unstable builds of debian instead of ubuntu or Mint. Why are you expecting CTRL-ALT-DEL to work the same way on linux just because windows offered that to you. Does windows offers running linux program inside windows officially? So why should CTRL-SHIFT-ESC should work exactly like windows? You can set any shortkey for it. If you're using gnome, you can use gconf-edit and do lot of shortcut variations. Why you're expecting intelligent linux to act like dumb windows?
If I skip this original version in multiplex somehow then Hindi dubbed version awaits me in future screening via DVD or Television, which is linguistically and logically rape of any hollywood movie.
