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Most Ubuntu users don’t dislike Unity (evident from surveys, polls, user testing, etc). There’s always backslash when a major change happens; see KDE4, GNOME3, Windows 8, etc.

However, that negative feedback did improve Unity in a way; there was a lot of focus on stability and performance over the past few releases and that’s a great thing.

As for the other aspects of Ubuntu, I myself find it to be a great alternative to Windows when one doesn’t need Windows-only apps. Community support is excellent and unparalleled compared to other Linux distros, and the whole OS feels like a cohesive experience. Then again, as an Ubuntu developer, my viewpoint on this is biased, but I’ve seen it evolve from the hard-to-use mess in 8.04 to what it is now. And while it’s still nowhere close to perfection, it is closer to it than any other Linux distro for sure, and some might say closer than even Windows.

Now, where’s Portal 2 for Linux?

about 10 hours ago on Ubuntu 13.04 from a "normal user" persective 1 recommend

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Unity. Why?

I find it to be a good balance between KDE’s “throw all options on the screen” and GNOME 3’s “hide everything behind multiple clicks and gestures” approach. It runs fast, has been very stable for a while now (early versions were very unstable), and has useful keyboard shortcuts. As a plus, many apps plug into it’s launcher API to provide progress bars and counts which can often be very helpful.

Also, the Dash’s search is pretty good; I can just press the Super/Windows key and type any file or application I want to open, and it takes care of all the heavy lifting.

about 11 hours ago on I haven't seriously used a desktop Linux GUI in years. Which is the best right now?

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I took those stats from Canonical’s (Ubuntu’s parent company) official website: http://www.canonical.com/partners

And that stat was first posted in 2011 . If the Linux OS trends as shown by Netmarketshare, StatCounter, etc are to be followed, the usage has only risen since.

about 17 hours ago on Google engineer publicizes Windows zero-day bug, claims Microsoft is 'difficult to work with' 1 recommend

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Considering no other smartphone commonly sold in US carrier stores offers a stock experience out of the box (except for the Nexus 4 on T-mo, of course), releasing phones with stock Android is enough of a differentiation.

1 day ago on HTC One 'Google Edition' with stock Android reportedly in the works 1 reply 1 recommend

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No. They clarified that on a Vergecast last year.

1 day ago on Are Paul and Ross Miller related?

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Have you considered Lenovo’s ThinkPads? I really like their design (though I know many people who don’t), and they’re a solid alternative to MacBooks.

As for all of your regular tasks, it seems like you should be able to do them easily on any operating system you move to. Unless you have a certain preference for one operating system, you can easily take that factor out of the equation.

1 day ago on Should I move from Windows 8 to OSX?

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In fact, after doing more research, it appears the two vulnerabilities Trustwave cited wouldn’t get triggered unless the user was to mount a specially crafted filesystem image. The likelihood of that happening by chance is zero (or crazily close to it).

And think about how Trustwave based an entire conclusion about a massive software project on those two…

1 day ago on Google engineer publicizes Windows zero-day bug, claims Microsoft is 'difficult to work with' 3 recommends

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Clearly biased.

They had a sample size of TWO Linux kernel vulnerabilities which most of the users weren’t affected by. Hence it flew under the radar. Also, those vulnerabilities are quite old.

This LWN article gives a good breakdown of the actual state of kernel vulnerabilities.

1 day ago on Google engineer publicizes Windows zero-day bug, claims Microsoft is 'difficult to work with' 1 reply 3 recommends

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Desktop Linux has millions of users. One distribution, Ubuntu, has 20+ million users all on its own. And then there are other (slightly less) popular distros like Fedora, Debian, Arch….

Then, there are servers which run very similar code, and are equally affected by exploits.

1 day ago on Google engineer publicizes Windows zero-day bug, claims Microsoft is 'difficult to work with' 1 reply 1 recommend

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Beep, missing accent.

MUY ESTÚPIDO

/gramáticanazi

3 days ago on Verizon calls in J-Lo to announce Viva Movil, a phone retailer with a Latino focus 17 recommends

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3 days ago on Things called One 2 recommends

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Nilay isn’t calling it a worthless console just because it lacks a built-in tuner and all. His main claim is that Microsoft missed a great opportunity, and that the TV functionality in the Xbox One won’t take off based on what we’ve seen in similar boxes in the past.

4 days ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes 4 replies 8 recommends

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So, there is no such thing as a coaxial to HDMI converter right?

It’s not as simple as that. OTA signals picked by an antenna and carried over coaxial cable require a tuner to “select” and decode video signal at a specific frequency. Cable transmissions are somewhat similar (feel free to correct me on this one) but are usually scrambled, which requires an unscrambling system usually built into cable boxes,

The Xbox One lacks a tuner or cable decoder. It just takes the mere HDMI video output from your cable box.

4 days ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes 2 replies 9 recommends

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Also, while you are at it, drop the exclamation mark at the end of the company’s name.

5 days ago on Yahoo to open office in New York City's Times Square 1 reply 2 recommends