Ubuntu 10.04

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Never heard of that problem before.

[NWC]

@NWC: does WINE not handle AoE III?

According to the internet, some people have succeeded in making it work. I tried once, spent about an hour on it, and got nowhere. It's just so much easier to give vista a third of my hard drive for that kind of thing. I pretty much never use wine.

[Faust]

WTF?  Macs don't shutdown from sleep mode if the battery is low?  Even Dells do that.

This would have been two years ago on the macbook, I have the pro now. I still think its a problem they haven't fixed.

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

Yay! 17 days until Fedora 13 is released.

Let's have some proper software around here, eh?

[Kai]

Yay! 17 days until Fedora 13 is released.

Let's have some proper software around here, eh?

You mean, stuff that takes a computer science degree to understand, right?

Because Fedora is purposefully obfuscatory.

[Jasper]

How is Ubuntu not proper software?  It does everything almost everybody needs a computer for.  It even does some stuff you don't need, and it does it all without needing you to hold its hand.

Can't CS nerds just be happy that there is a single linux distro that normal people might possibly want?

[Elder Iptuous]

Can't CS nerds just be happy that there is a single linux distro that normal people might possibly want?

no.
they want to have an exclusive club that they can hold over the heads of the unwashed masses, yet simultaneously want to whine about why said people are unwilling to use their golden boy OS....

[Doktor Howl]

Can't CS nerds just be happy that there is a single linux distro that normal people might possibly want?

no.
they want to have an exclusive club that they can hold over the heads of the unwashed masses, yet simultaneously want to whine about why said people are unwilling to use their golden boy OS....

This.

Also, be advised that Linux tards are even easier to troll than Objectivists.  Rag on their OS, and they lose their fucking minds.

[Jasper]

Shut up you guys linux loves me, and it would love you too if you were better people.

[Doktor Howl]

Shut up you guys linux loves me, and it would love you too if you were better people.

IT'S THE BEST OPERATING SYSTEM EVER EVEN IF IT DOESN'T RUN ANYTHING AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU SUCK YOU'RE JUST A CONSUMER WHORE AND NOT NEARLY AS EDGY AS ME GET A REAL OS YOU PUKES UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!

[Jasper]

TBH, it does almost everything I need, except some games.  So I tend to use my windows box, even though windows is a pain in the ass. 

[Elder Iptuous]

i used Ubuntu for a while on a lark when it was a dapper drake, and thought it was pretty decent.

my box just crapped out again and i'm building up a new one now.
i'll give this one a shot...
it's not like i do any gaming on it.
mostly just the intarwebs and downloading/burning media.

[Jasper]

Yeah, it does all that pretty much out of the box.  Just make sure you grab the restricted extras codec and everything's cherry.

[Doktor Howl]

Yeah, it does all that pretty much out of the box.  Just make sure you grab the restricted extras codec and everything's cherry.

All software should operate "out of the box".  No tweaking or adjustments should be necessary.

For example, this wonderful "Vista" gives me a beautiful sky blue screen, complete with cloud-like white letters spelling doom, without me doing anything whatsoever.

[Jasper]

To hell with vista, why not switch back to XP?  It's the only Windows OS I ever liked, and even then only because it doesn't BSOD constantly and I can turn off all the naggy dialogue boxes.