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Messed about with Fedora years ago, when you still had to 'dial up' your USB broadband modem.
I recall being able to setup up Fedora to dial it up on computer startup, whereas on Windows you had to use the GUI after logging in etc, really minor but made me really happy.
How is it these days?
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It maybe that I got used to it but I find it very comfortable to use in everyday work (documents, mail, graphics). For development I use Visual Studio running in VirtualBox using seamless window, so I do not feel Windows at all...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I use it occasionally but only for Linux development and yes I like this version a lot, it just keeps getting better.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Cool, still got Windows 7 on a VM with full hardware acceleration for when I need it, but finding myself needing it less and less.
I have an AMD processor and graphics card, this seems to be the first version which doesn't run like sh*t on AMD lol
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I've always had a lot of problems with monitor sizing using Ubuntu on VirtualBox, it's a lot better now.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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SUSE 11 Enterprise at work. At home - mostly Windows Phone 8.1 
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I tried Ubuntu at home awhile back. Got everything installed and updated and then popped a movie DVD in the drive. It wouldn't play it. After some searching I found out you had to open a root shell and do some stuff in there to get a special package to support that. For me it was no big deal, but it made it clear why Linux has not yet taken over the desktop for the general user
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If your concept ever reaches the brains of the big players, the game will truly change.
I'm not expecting radical differences tomorrow morning, but if they ever do get your ideas in place, wow, we will have a significantly different landscape.
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That's important data. Thanks.
Ubuntu has always been "aallllmmost there" for me.
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HomerTheGreat wrote: Every previous iteration of Ubuntu has caused me grief eventually,
I've found their desktop to be klunky. What's new in 14.04? I guess I'll take a gander.
At the end of the day, everything I do in *nix ends up being done in a terminal window. Or in RubyMine under Windows. There are just so many little things about Windows that you come to appreciate when dealing with somebody else's half-baked desktop.
Marc
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Does it include a browser which will do the full HTML 5 spec ?
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What about Visual Studio 2013 and/or Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls?
These are my 2 survivals Applications!
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I totally agree with you. The difference is I am still with VS 2012.
Let's not forget to mention other mandatory applications like BF4 and Wow.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Indeed, those must be supported! 
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Japanese fans[^]
Stadium[^]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Hmmm, the Japanese cleans the stadium, and I guess that the French sprayed the stadium with eau de cologne afterwards 
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Must agree here...
IGNORE OLD SIG. Working on new, and much more awesome website.
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...or so it seems.[^]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I like the comment: "Hypothesaurus Rex"! 
But...the book isn't out till september, (as Randal has been saying for weeks http://blog.xkcd.com/2014/03/12/what-if-i-wrote-a-book/[^]
And it's got new stuff, and undated / revised versions of the web material.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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yeah, but ARCs are put out a few months before the protection copy of the book is available. Think of them as (cheaply) printed betas. They're produced so that reviewers can have their reviews written and in print publications when the book first becomes available, so that marketing people can give them to book buyers to try to convince them to stock more copies of the title, and occasionally as promotional handouts.
Depending on the volume they're produced in getting one isn't necessarily that hard. I've got at least one on my book shelves (IIRC 2 but I'm not certain about the 2nd).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A Spanish captain was walking on his ship when a soldier rushes to him and exclaims, "An enemy ship is approaching us!"
The captain replies calmly, "Go get my red shirt."
The soldier gets the shirt for the captain. The enemy ship comes in and heavy rounds of fire are exchanged.
Finally, the Spaniards win. The soldier asks, "Congrats sir, but why the red shirt?"
The captain replies, "If I got injured, my blood shouldn't be seen, as I didn't want my men to lose hope."
Just then, another soldier runs up and says, "Sir, we just spotted another twenty enemy ships!"
The captain calmly replies, "Go bring my yellow pants."
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Are you sure? I totally thought he had made it up. 
Actually, I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as an original joke anymore. They have all been told.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Can this thread be deleted?
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