Never freezes? Also not true, although it seldom happens - and can almost always be unfrozen without the need to resort to a hard reboot.

Still happens to me.  About once a month, I come home and the screensaver is frozen.  No mouse response, no Ctrl-Alt-F1, no nothin'.  I suspect it may be the DMA errors my hard drive was throwing my way about 6 months ago, causing random slowdown->window freeze->total lockup glitches.  I have a script that I ran at the first sign of trouble which would write dmesg|tail to another disk every 5 seconds until it came down, and that's how I learned it was DMA errors.  Been keeping Unison backups ever since just in case.  Windows no matter what hardware I was on would do strange things and freeze up every once in a while, but I had no idea how to go about pinning down the issue.

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I think he probably meant 'seamlessly' rather than 'natively.'
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What I have trouble with is this part below...

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Then Robolinux does something really amazing: It installs everything you need including your favorite software and thousands of current updates in less than 10 to 20 minutes. ...

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Heh. So without quibbling on one word, how can it run everything/anything from Windows "seamlessly"? I thought WINE and all that stuff was still a murky mess, hence the lack of Linux on the Desktop.

And what exactly is my "Favorite" software? Does that include Pale Moon browser? Kingsoft Spreadsheet? Anything that I use whatsoever?

But the Big Gun is, how do you install and run MS Office "seamlessly"? The "only" things keeping me on Windows are:

1. Lack of a true clone of the "Windows Install Process" - just being able to "seamlessly" download/install and run any Windows program like I do now. (Not counting the ones "Not available for XP" etc.)

2. Lack of a true clone of the Windows Explorer environment including the Right Click menus. Sure, I bet 3/4 of the features are possible, but the times I was exploring the Ubuntu family and Suse, stuff was just missing or badly moved somewhere.

3. "TBD later."

It was pretty easy for me to go Non-MS for both browsers and the office programs. But it was the big dog of them all, the Win environment, that I gave up trying to get off from. So I'd love a heavy-hit test of this thing, separate from us all just commenting on the marketing copy. Most of all, I want to know how that whole "your Windows program works here" vs one known to cause problems with WINE.

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Windows 8.1 Update 1 Everything we know so far

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Foodscapes - Edible art

Art that had intrinsic value, the original art was edible. Art with taste.

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Untangling the Web.pdf
Thank the NSA for this one. This is the first text file I haven't been able to upload here(38.4MB)

This was written in 2007, it would be interesting to read the current version. Anyone here up to that task?

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Untangling the Web.pdf
Thank the NSA for this one. This is the first text file I haven't been able to upload here(38.4MB)

Nice find!
My favorite quote so far (emphasis mine):

We pay for the benefits of the Internet less in terms of money and more in terms of the currencies of our age: time, energy, and privacy.

Quite true, that...

Five reasons I'd rather run Windows 8 than Linux  ZDNet

Thank you, tomos!  

Five reasons I'd rather run Windows 8 than Linux  ZDNet

That article is so chock-full of trollbait, it should have been sent trip-trapping over a bridge.  The author even says as much ("Prove me right."). 
Seems like it never fails that when the Windows vs. Linux rant fests begin, all manner of facts, lies, damn lies, generalities, opinions, assumptions, straw men, and ad hominems ALL get loaded in the troll-cannons at once and fired with complete impunity and disregard for public safety by both parties.  I was sick of it years ago, and I'm sick of it now.

Repeat after me: Use What Works For YOU.  Period.

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Five reasons I'd rather run Windows 8 than Linux  ZDNet

That article is so chock-full of trollbait, it should have been sent trip-trapping over a bridge.  The author even says as much ("Prove me right.").  
Seems like it never fails that when the Windows vs. Linux rant fests begin, all manner of facts, lies, damn lies, generalities, opinions, assumptions, straw men, and ad hominems ALL get loaded in the troll-cannons at once and fired with complete impunity and disregard for public safety by both parties.  I was sick of it years ago, and I'm sick of it now.

Amen. That anti-nix spiel has been played so often that I'm amazed it still gets played any more.  

But then again, look at Dave Gewirtz's bio page. Hardly surprising considering where (and by whom) his bread gets buttered.

Like the old saying goes "Cui bono?"  

 

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Sideshow World, Sideshow Performers from around the world

Wolves do not deserve the stigma man has put on them. However, is this not just what happens every time when one species is too dominant? And isn't the same true when balance is restored?

Live and let live. That is the only way.