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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/15 10:38, Joseph Bennie wrote: > > On 11 Sep 2015, at 10:27, lug@xxxxxx wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:27:08 +0000, Joseph Bennie >> <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> .. ps while trip to bsd land would be a joyride, Linux critical >>> mass make it the best bet. but If solaris was actually >>> affordable as an every day OS ... I've no issue with >>> proprietary, I have an issue with blackmail and extortion. >>> >> >> MS are doing this because it is what most people want. The >> average joe is quite happy to exchange their personal information >> for free stuff > > The point is ... its not free, its really expensive. (...death by > 1000 small cuts served so slowly do don't notice at first.) > >> and if it works for Facebook and Google then why not MS. Ditto >> subscriptions. A lot of people pay £30 a month for a phone even >> though they could buy it outright and save cash in the longterm. >> >> What makes me sad is that after all these years the open source >> alternatives to desktop Windows are still mostly at about XP >> level. A lot of the apps still look like crap and often don't >> integrate very well if at all with the OS. > > yep this is the truth, > > I'm technically quite capable of using linux, but at every turn i'm > thwarted because at the professional end, design and development > the tools are just not good enough to be stable, productive and > pixel perfect. > > Its the crux of the problem. we need more: quality, small > iterative improvement and implementation of the best innovations. > we don't need new window managers every 12 months with quirky UI > designs. > > > >> >> Kevin >> >> -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: >> http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > > I agree here, the other day I tried to switch to a non free graphics driver to see if doing that would fix something, the issues that caused with stability was totally crazy, I eventually fixed the issue by ssh-ing in, ran driver manager and switched back to the free nouveau driver. The solution is hardly ideal when you put your user hat on and think of it from their perspective, I am still having issues if I run either OAD or OpenRA, exit the game and it messes up the graphics. Thankfully with Mint you can do CTRL-ALT-ESC and it restarts the desktop without restarting everything (like crtl-alt-backspace does) the problem is I find it really hard to actually describe or properly reproduce what has happened, so it is harder to send reports to the developers. or in fact know who to send these reports too even. Other than that Mint works fine, it is quick, and does the job, I don't play games that much, anyway so the issues above are just more of a pain rather than stopping productivity. Paul - -- http://www.zleap.net @zleap14 t: @zleap14 diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Documentation lead @ ToriOS http://www.torios.org Torbay Tech Jam http://torbaytechjam.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlXyrbYACgkQaggq1k2FJq1wigCeIcf7xegHsll/kFlKUNvB3+Sa skcAnRWvejnpUAP6QoVXCM8+l+3k96WN =Na38 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq