IMO, you can't have choice and complete standardization. So many times people come bemoaning how segmented Linux is, without realizing that that's what makes it great. Package management is one of...
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IMO, you can't have choice and complete standardization. So many times people come bemoaning how segmented Linux is, without realizing that that's what makes it great. Package management is one of...
GNOME has a calendar app. I haven't used it myself, but it looks like it does notifications/alarms.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar
I used Manjaro for a time, and it is a very good distro. I never experienced any major issues with upgrades (though apparently people did shortly after I switched). I just got tired of having to...
Rolling releases are kind of a two-edged sword. You always get the newest features and you never have to do a full system upgrade, but the system is always changing. That results in, at least,...
But I wonder if qemu, kodi, etc. would actually fail to run if he were to remove the bluetooth libraries? In that case, your solution would get him around the package manager problem but still leave...
You need to have at least some RAM for the computer to operate. In theory, you could use just enough RAM to boot and then configure a partition of your SSD as swap to handle the rest, but that would...
I agree about closed formats. I don't use MS Office at all anymore, except at work. Whether that's a good solution for the OP depends on what he means by "casual user," as you said. In my experience,...
Opening them is fine if you just want to read them, but not if you want to edit them and have them come out with the same formatting in MS Office.
My opinion: give wine a try first. It has worked...
If you're sure your problem is related to systemd, there are other Linux distros without it. Slackware comes to mind. It's not as pointy-clicky as Ubuntu, but if you could set up Mandrake Linux in...
That would be extremely inconvenient. There's a good reason why wine programs are normally able to access stuff on $HOME, and that's because that's where people keep their documents, not in some...
Gnome was not forked off Unity. It is simply the new version of the same project that was previously the flagship desktop for Ubuntu.
No it wouldn't. It would just be another Windows / OS X. Freedom of choice is the major benefit of Linux and open source software in general. If you don't want that, you should use an OS that doesn't...
None. awesome window manager here. :)
https://awesomewm.org/
Streaming games from NHL.com has been broken on Linux since they changed the website last year. I am a paying customer and emailed them at the time, and let's just say they weren't very helpful. It's...
I ran FreeBSD on a VM for a little while. It was an interesting experience. I was looking for a laptop OS, though, and I never installed it to bare metal because it sounded like it would not be worth...
The advantages of Linux are things that most people simply don't care about, at least not enough to make the switch. Let's face it, for most Linux users, computing is a hobby. We like the technical...
It sounds like a video problem to me. I know that support for Skylake in Linux can still be a little flakey depending on the kernel and firmware version. So what kernel and Intel video firmware are...
Is it, though? What I mean is, is Canonical actually making money from Ubuntu?
The risk would be people ditching Windows altogether and moving to OS X, Chrome, or Linux. Maybe it will happen down the road, but at the moment MS is still trying to convince people to upgrade / not...
In other words, the answer is no. You should be careful with framing your speculation as if it were fact. I believe that's called FUD. The reason I care is because I actually use Windows 10 to...
Is there actually any evidence that they are going to start charging a monthly fee for the OS, other than the Enterprise edition?
You can get the behavior you want with many different desktop environments, but I think Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition) would be a good choice if you want one that works that way out of the box and is...
This is one of the things I don't like about Snaps, Flatpaks, etc. It's not that they are insecure as a package format, it's the fact that they make it very easy for anyone to create a package. My...
Here's another something completely different. It is my first try with a tiling window manager, and I think I'm hooked. :)
As a bonus (at least in my opinion), the panel is fully scriptable, so...
Looks nice! What window manager is that?