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Originally posted by Feathers McGraw View PostI agree with you about corporations being the problem a lot of the time... "protecting" content with DRM is one of the reasons why many popular services don't work well on Linux, e.g. the last time I set up 4od (TV catch up for a UK channel) for my girlfriend I had to use adobe's old flash (Google's pepper flash doesn't work) AND install some old hardware abstraction layer. All this to view a public TV channel online!
http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2014/03/4od-on...d-related/4652
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Originally posted by jlittle View PostI appreciate the point you're making, but I find it's far more common for people to blame themselves if something goes wrong. (*everybody* uses windows, they get by ok, I'm not so good with computers, so I must have done something wrong.)
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you are right!
im just losing patience seeing people post here blaming linux for their lack of skill.. years ago things were different..
probably should stop logging on here lol
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It would be nice if they did "just work", but everyone's idea of what a computer should actually do is different, which is where some of the problems start.
Not a desktop example, but just look at the whole Google "right to be forgotten" fiasco. To a lot of people, it seems perfectly obvious that Google should "take down" those articles "from the internet" because they think Google IS the internet. I'm not sure you can make computers work the way people might expect them to because all of that is based on misconceptions and contradictions
I agree with you about corporations being the problem a lot of the time... "protecting" content with DRM is one of the reasons why many popular services don't work well on Linux, e.g. the last time I set up 4od (TV catch up for a UK channel) for my girlfriend I had to use adobe's old flash (Google's pepper flash doesn't work) AND install some old hardware abstraction layer. All this to view a public TV channel online!
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Originally posted by Feathers McGraw View PostTo be fair, they're often right... so they keep on doing stupid things.
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Originally posted by jlittle View PostI find it's far more common for people to blame themselves if something goes wrong.
You don't get many people using Linux who don't have an interest in computers, since it's not commonly preinstalled on hardware. I'm sure we all know a non-technical user or two who we support on Linux, but that statement is still generally true.
Windows gets a lot of flack because of the number of people who have to use a computer but don't have any interest in actually learning how to make their lives easier... so they keep on doing stupid things. These people would be just as bad on Linux.
I'm not a windows fan - I've been single booting Kubuntu at home for the past year quite happily - but when I have to use it at work I try to learn to use it well. The number of people who shoot themselves in the foot by avoiding any learning is pretty shocking!
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Originally posted by millusions View Postin Windows, people justify,
oh, it crashes sometimes, but i paid 150$ for this software so lets not make a big deal out of it
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it's pretty obvious why Linux is not popular,
it's because when something doesnt work in Linux people log onto a forum and post:
linux is bad, this doesnt work.
simply because the learning curve is a steep one.
and in Windows, people justify,
oh, it crashes sometimes, but i paid 150$ for this software so lets not make a big deal out of it
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Originally posted by SteveRiley View PostI've noticed that a fair amount of Canonical stuff ends up in Debian's repositories -- like Upstart and Bzr, for instance. But do Debian users actually use of that stuff?
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Originally posted by dibl View PostActually lightdm is available in Debian since Wheezy, and it is being encouraged for use in lieu of KDM because of the lack of maintenance and future development of KDM. Although a check in Jessie packages indicates they are keeping KDM available for that release. But it doesn't appear to have much of a future in the longer term.
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http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/...-ubuntu-14-04/
Hibernate is disabled by default in Ubuntu. When the computer hibernates, all of your applications and documents are stored and the computer completely switches off so it does not use any power, but the applications and documents will still be open when you switch on the computer again.
Hibernate powers down the computer. Sleep is suspending to RAM, but not powering down. In the sleep mode video shuts off and the disk stops spinning, the CPU goes to minimum, but applications remain in memory which is kept powered.
I never used either sleep or hibernate, but after my relative's experience I have set Power Management, when on battery, to shut down the computer when the remaining battery power drops below 5%, or I close the lid.
Also, I choose to start with a clean desktop. IF I wanted to have the applications which where running when I shut down to return to the screen when I power up I would set the desktop to restore the previous session. Since I never use the "restore to previous session" I do not know if an app, say LibreOffice, would open up to the document I was using at the time or not.
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I'm always curious how things work thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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Originally posted by SteveRiley View PostLightDM is a project of Canonical and you won't find it used anywhere else.
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