I installed the last update in virtualbox, and it seems to be ok. I didn't use it very much at all, but i can confirm that the horrible start screen is now optional \o/

That means its even more Design-By-Committee since everyone and their dog had their say on that little detail

I keep dreaming Open Source does something that just works..

I'm starting to like Linux, too. Now that most modern software runs in the browser, Linux is more practical. I still can't fully switch because I need Photoshop and Office. Otherwise I could probably do it.

I surprisingly like the desktop environments that I've tried, they're very simple and straight forward.

I can't get my 4 screen config work. One card is R9 70, the other is GTS450. The R9 would support everything if I had a DD adapter that worked.
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Oh, and even what worked did glitch.. Drivers for AMD device are quite fcked.
After installing some proprietary driver things just stopped working literally.

I tried: Fedora, Ubuntu. & probably anotehr distro which I don't remember.. But anyways. avatar of Linux simplicity(Ubuntu) refused to get installed, & bleeding edge fedora refused to work with drivers, or support 2x vid cards.

Hey, hey! I'm 2 young 4that.
And the point is, it works in windows out of the box, without any drivers. Well, I still installed both drivers.

Sadly, the proprietary drivers do not play nicely with each other. they all install their own libraries for GL that overwrite the existing ones, so if your DE uses GL, well, you're pooched.

Multi-vendor multi-gpu is probably not going to work very well in linux for the time being. Maybe with the opensource drivers it'll work ok (but probably not great).

We have windows 10 preview on two machines at school. It looks a lot like Windows. It runs the same programs that Windows ran, too! It even has a start menu like Windows had!

If I didn't know better I'd say Windows 10 is another version of Windows. I probably would have been more impressed if it wasn't Windows, but I guess you can't be picky about these things.

When they add POSIX support to their feature list, then I'll consider using it. They'll also need a default terminal shell that doesn't blow, need to use about 50% of the resources, and for shit sake support more than 3 filesystems!

Are you sure about Thunderbird? I have it running on my notebook.

I often forget how many choices you have for browsers. Open source is the shizznitt!

I will concede that Cortana is, also, the shizznitt, however I would never use such a thing on a desktop. My typing is far faster than activating her, talking to her, and waiting for the result. I could have just done the actions myself.

I'm using a terminal about 50-60% of my work day, and it is only increasing. I don't need a new Windows shell around their crappy OS; I need a good command shell that is compliant with the tools I use.

Macs are a little more acceptable, but still foreign to me.

For ideological, preferential, and technical reasons: I'm still a Linux deviant.