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I personally like Icewm-lite or Awesome for some serious low-footprint usage, but that's definitely not made for new users. :P

Eh, it's hard to really pinpoint why. The jokes just aren't funny and generally he really sucks at delivering a punchline correctly. It's not the worst web comic in the world but it's just really bland. Like you have CAD/VGcats which are just god-awful abominations and crimes against humanity, then you have QC/XKCD which just can never really deliver a punchline correctly and half of the time you read them with a straight face :|. I find it funny, but I'm part of the demographic that xkcd is aimed at, that is programmers or people interested in computer science that use Linux. It's elitist [cabbage]. You need to have a degree or just read wikipedia fervently [like Munroe does, that [wagon][bleep]] to decipher the "joke". Not all of us are intelligent computer programers or aeronautical engineers. [bleep] it, call me a [developmentally delayed]. I'm 15 and I get the majority of them (Although there are some ones that are way beyond me that I'll probably get when I'm like 20). But like I said though it's not for everyone, and it's not meant that everyone would understand it. xkcd is a lot like Dilbert in that it's aimed at a certain kind of person, but unlike Dilbert it makes no big attempt to be amusing to people outside that demographic. Elitist, I don't know. It is definitely written from a very computer-literate perspective though, and it often slights people who don't get the internet/computers in general.

I would go with actionscript/flash for a 2d game, but getting decent development tools could cost. I don't know about development tools for actionscript/flash actually, but I know that it's used in thousands of 2d games.

The subforum suggestions weren't duped. :P Do I detect sarcasm? I think not.

I've been wondering, why do you not like xkcd? I read Penny Arcade and xkcd every day they come out, I've tried to find more webcomics but few have interested me. I read all of Unit B a while ago but forgot about it and now I'm not up to date.

Since everything on Forum Updates & Suggestions is duped, I have an answer ready for this too. :P Long-time users actually have quite a bit of influence already. The nice thing about this is that "Trusted users" can change how much influence they have themselves by their, instead of a trusted member being standardized in a user group so that they all have the same amount of power and influence and glory and whatnot. I know that this isn't entirely satisfying, it's not as concrete as having heightened forum permissions, but believe me it's there.

What happened with Iceweasel was a looong story but I switched back to Ubuntu since then. And keep in mind that there are no free nVidia drivers.

Lol, there are many people in the world who will rip your head off for saying that. Yeah. They're the people that don't recommend Ubuntu to new users because it doesn't follow the Unix philosophy. :lol:

Ubuntu works great for advanced users too (I would consider myself as intermediate to advanced) as it gets a lot of unnecessary stuff out of the way and puts a nice GUI on top of a very powerful system.

Debian? I think that the lack of proprietary stuff (Automatic detection of which proprietary graphics driver to use for example) could be very annoying. And Ubuntu is an easy way to get into Linux, you don't need to use the root account at all thanks to sudo. For me, I use Ubuntu because it smooths over the rough edges of Debian so well. If I was looking to build a server, I might use Debian but for the desktop Ubuntu is great. I haven't had good experiences with Debian either (I managed to completely screw over IceWeasel just like 2 days after installing Debian).

I have one of their joysticks which is probably old by now (Extreme3D pro) and I haven't had problems, but it's not overly stunning to me. I don't really have any complaints in any case. :P

My conclusion: A decent upgrade from Vista/XP if you have the specs for the new version of Aero and get it for a lower price/free through an agreement with Microsoft (Like in schools and such). It did a lot of cleanup, the boot is faster at ~1-1½ minutes (Which still doesn't beat Karmic on my machine which gets about 30 seconds boot, 7 seconds shutdown) and the new taskbar is nice. But since I don't really use Windows anyway, I'm not really sure I would have paid for this. Windows media player 12 is really cool. I've always liked WMP, it has a really nice interface and isn't so unstable and resource hogging as iTunes. (But I don't like the fact that it's hard to convince it to play FLAC)

I'm loving the results. :D And this open source project, it sounds interesting even though you haven't said anything about it. :P

I've actually been wanting an ATI card lately with the nice looking developments in their area and the seemingly matured open source driver. I'm stuck with an nVidia 8600 GT right now, so you can't get much worse. :| But I had absolutely no problems with the driver; Two click install and haven't thought about it since.

Well, seeing as I ran three pre-2006 games on Vista when I used it I'm guessing so. And then there's this Windows XP compatibility mode thing which I don't know a lot about, but that could probably help you.

It could be that it just effects variables of type int and long, and the CPU addresses RAM up to 2^64 (Since there's no negative value needed for RAM.) Here's an example of what I mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Technically, it's 2^63, the last bit is used to determine whether a number is positive or negative.

Is it really slower for you? Mine boots in like 30 seconds.

This is quite awesome. It's so smooth, the new boot theme is amazing. I saw the mockups, but seeing it in reality with animation is amazing.

Yeah, I stopped downloading from the Finnish server (Because even it was lagging lol) and decided to torrent it instead. What I'd do if I were you is torrent the CD ISO, burn the CD, insert the CD and upgrade from the CD. (Insert the CD while Ubuntu is booted and you're logged in and a "Do you want to upgrade" kind of thing should come up)

I'm backing up right now.

I agree about logging in on the index- But the navigation bar at the bottom of the page is very subsilver and I don't like that.

That'll be the desktop effects. They're irresistible on any operating system.

I'm really looking forward to Karmic; 24 hours is an eternity. That about switching to 64-bit: My only reason for staying with 32-bit is really flash player. Although there is Gnash, it's nowhere near as good and even Adobe's flash player for Linux is indeed poorly put together. Just yesterday I found a site whose flash did not work on Ubuntu (Jaunty), my brother was using it on Windows and it worked fine. Adobe has so far failed to impress me with their operating system support in general. The UI of Windows 7 is pretty much what KDE4.3 is. Looking at a screencast of 7 reminded me of all kinds of desktop effects that KDE already has and the few that were original will be duplicated very, very soon. Intuitive but easy to cross-implement. This made an interesting read, I'm not too interested in people's RS blogs. :P

60K is the default limit for phpBB3 but the admins took it off almost as soon as phpBB3 was up.