I've been using MacOSX as my primary desktop since the days of Rhapsody. But I always had Linux virtual machines running on occasions. A dwindling number of machines at home were running Linux, most notably a couple of Raspberry Pi and a Synology Diskstation. And when I installed Linux, I usually went for Ubuntu, which did a good job polishing the user experience. The build ring for Tao3D includes a number of virtual machines running several major distros for testing purpose, but it's been quite inactive for a while, and repairing it is on my short-term to-do list.
Working for Red Hat, I thought I had to use Fedora as my primary desktop. And the experience has been a bit underwhelming so far, unfortunately. In just three days, I managed to render a Mac Book Pro unbootable in OSX, had several different issues with skippy or laggy mouse cursors and even non-responsive keyboards, had a driver crash attempting to access my home Wi-Fi, found out the hard way that NFS performance is just horrible, and had to use Google for trivial things way too often.
I complained several times on this blog about what I perceived as a degradation of OSX software quality since 10.6, but this experience with Linux puts all this in some serious perspective.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:28AM
Nitpicking. The quote block was clearly marked. Besides regs here know that Phoenix666 posts in such volume that he wouldn't have time to hand-compose each summary, unless this was his full time job (as it may be for editors on the green site).
(Score: 2) by tfried on Saturday December 24 2016, @07:53AM
I'm not asking Phoenix666 or anybody else to hand-compose the summary. I'm asking him and/or other submitters and the editors to use a less confusing template in the case that the summary consists of a quote, only (which is where the ambiguity arises). I made several suggestions in my post, but perhaps the most elegant wording is the one used in a different story, same day:
$submitter has found the following story
It even gives you a convenient place to insert a link, so it even saves you adding "Read more here."
No, this is not an end-of-the-world-severity problem, but it's rampant, and easily fixed.