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I've been hearing this phrase for such a long time but i do not get it. I think Linux by nature is a personal affair, the way i've setup everything is going to be drastically different than somebody else. Which leads me to believe that even the year of linux desktop is a personal matter. My year was about a decade ago, the authors might be 2023, some people from the audience would've seen their year last year perhaps etc. So not really sure about the point of the rant anyway... when something is so good you do not bother about these self-imposed stupid conditions, you just relish, send your blessings to contributors and the creator and hopefully even contribute yourself- chill out & happy tuxing!

Initially I felt the same about Vim, I attempted a couple of times to pick it up but could'nt get used to it. However, I could see it's potential and one last attempt I made and told myself that it would be an investment. I broke the barrier and got competent enough to make it useful for myself as much as a normal editor such as nano pico or even notepad. I was then on track because I started learning about plugins vimscript. organizing my code so that it is convenient for use with Vim. I have still a lot to learn but I can say that it has already increased my productivity ten-fold. However, I can respect that everbody is different and Iam happy if you've found your ideal editor in nano.

I think you're response is quite inappropriate. I am not sure how you were able to deduce that the person's skills lack in someway. I don't think there is enough information in the post to make that judgement.

"IT is in boom now"

Are you by any chance living in the 80-90s? :p. Apologies but I beg to differ. My personal opinion is that the field has peaked, which is why you are finding people writing up a webpage and calling themselves a startup. Of course there are exceptions but I am referring to the majority here. There is also large amount of redundant work happening.

IT is and will always be a complimentary field and cannot stand on its own. We are now going through a transitional phase where what was once classified as a white collar job is shifting on the gradient towards blue, so it lies somewhere in between. Maybe Cyan? :).

Congratulation on becoming free(-er) :)

Lenovo x220/x230.

> "...Technology doesn't matter..." <

Key point this one.

Dont! Never ever do that. If you want to bootstrap do it on the side. Only quit your job if the project matures. Not only that, but a solid benefit is that the skills/ideas you might learn from your project will cross pollinate into your work, therefore making you a better employee hence more valuable.

YES WE ARE-

Arch Linux is super awesome and super lean. It has one requirement, that you can read. The documentation is solid, and you'll be up and running in a very short time. Your first install might take long, but do not fall into the this-is-frustrating trap. You'll be rewarded pleasantly for reading. It is also a bleeding edge distribution, basically the packages are updated pretty frequently and there is no concept of a release - cycle as such... in theory. Not to mention you also get to hang out a lot with a cool guy called Pacman-

Thank you for formalising into words what I have felt for quite some time. This comment resonates with my core beliefs. Virtual high five!

I switch from wordpress to Pelican. I did not have a particular issue with wordpress apart from the mentioned security hassles but I also found it to be a bit bloated for what I wanted. Now I have a much cleaner implementation in Pelican and I am liking it... alot! check it out @ https://techtum.eu

Lenovo Thinkpad series has been great for me.

I am a Lenovo Thinkpad user x230 specifically. Heavily criticised by people who love their X220's but it works great for me 12" form factor and packs a punch, separate slot for SSD if you want one and loads of ports. I have 2 actually. One runs my home server. I dropped out of the main stream sphere mainly because of this carrot donkey driven eco-system (Who knows where they are taking us). I am quite happy with my Arch Linux deployment. Its decent for gaming too.

Erm which proprietary software issues are you referring to?

Very well thought out and expressed.

I know how you feel. It just goes to show you that the masses think a like. :). Here is a +1 for you buddy, for what its worth, I thought the link was good.

I am surprised that this is so shocking to the author. Stuff like this is expected and only logical, as wrong as it may be. Apple has been desperately trying to tie people into their eco-system and every move the company makes is a step in that direction whether it may be immediately obvious to other people or not. Also I should mention that I believe Apple is probably not the only company that promotes the use of its own apps on its own platforms. Regardless, it is nice to see some concrete indicators like this article to actually show how that is being done.

I'd be very interested to know how you get by without it. It might sound like a joke but I am super serial.

Three cheers for a decade of surveillance!

Exactly what is going through my mind :)

The success and effectiveness of the console, I believe, is dictated by the following statement:

"Watch for announcements in the coming weeks about all the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS in 2014. Access the full Steam catalog of over nearly 3000 games and desktop software titles via in-home streaming."

To me this suggests that they are actively trying to get developers to port and they have had some success. Also I believe that a lot of developers will not port and to handle those cases they've introduced the home streaming functionality so that you could stream your windows game to the steam box via a windows steam client running somewhere.

Likely, but of course just a speculation at this point.

The idea itself is not novel as such. Just like every other company the difficulty is having to disassociate yourself from Windows. As it stands the store relies heavily on Windows titles. The real feat would be if they managed to get the whole catalog across to SteamOS by under the hood cross compatibility layer.

Does not say.

ROFL.

I have been thinking about this for a good few years now and I think the idea has some value however it comes at a cost. What makes internet so good is its population. It is the population of the entire world without borders and immigration control. You can talk to anyone and approach anyone or at least you have the ability to.

Knowledge rules and it is directly propotional to the number of people available on the internet. Once nations start going down the track of setting up virtual borders (believe this is what this would lead to), all flow of information will be condemned as it is in the real world. A national network would be used in making solid cases for embargos and sanctions against people and their knowledge, which they were at full liberty to share and disclose as they saw fit. Surely this is not currently at the scale of Great Firewall of China, however, it can easily become that. Consider this move as the first brick.

Surely internet surveilance exists and anybody who thought it wasn't ever since its creation was either stupid or indifferent to the idea. The difference between then and now is that we have proof of this. A nation isolating itself into a pocket of its own internal communication network will not solve this problem. I personally think that it is a step back not a step forward. I believe TOR had the right idea but it is no silver bullet. People of Brazil might think that this is a good thing but rest assured all that would change is they'd be transitioning from global internet surveillance to local internet surveillance.

Very well written Sir.

I think a lot of people have already corrected you on your arrogance but I will still say that regardless of however much usa spent you need to question where that money came from in the first place. That is all.

I know Pakistan is very well known for its hand crafted products. Leather and sports goods being the highlights. It would be interesting to see how the story of this website progresses.

Am I the only one who fails to see the innovation in that?