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https://www.trinitydesktop.org/newsentry.php?entry=2014.12.16
The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new TDE R14.0.0 release. The Trinity Desktop Environment is a complete software desktop environment designed for Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software.
Unlike previous releases TDE R14.0.0 has been in development for over two years. This extended development period has allowed us to create a better, more stable and more feature-rich product than previous TDE releases. R14 is brimming with new features, such as a new hardware manager based on udev (HAL is no longer required), full network-manager 0.9 support, a brand new compositor (compton), built-in threading support, and much more!
(Score: 1, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Thursday December 18 2014, @05:55AM
Linux is free if your time is worthless, if your time is worth nothing? Go ahead, enjoy the forced upgrade death march, update foo broke my drivers, if you think I'm full of shit take the Hairyfeet Challenge and post the resulting video to Dropbox. Takes less than 4 hours from start to finish and will prove to you what I already know, the Linux driver model is a shitstain on the underwear that is OS design and even 15 year old WinXP WDM driver design is the space age to the 1970s crap design Torvalds refuses to let go of.
As far as cost? You get 10 years worth of updates WITHOUT the upgrade deathmarch for a lousy $100, that is just $10 A YEAR. If you are soo poor that $10 a year is a hardship? You probably can't afford Internet anyway which in that case you can stay with Win95 for all it matters. Oh and just FYI but you can go to pretty much any Craigslist or flea market and find a dual core Win 7 desktop or laptop for less than the $100 so you can actually get newer hardware AND the new OS for less than $100.
Feel free to prove me wrong by taking the challenge but I have a feeling in a few months I'll be able to talk about how my challenge is enjoying its ninth year, because as a Linux admin friend who got fed up with Linux shitting on his laptop said as he went out to get a MBP "Linux doesn't get better, it just gets different!
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday December 18 2014, @01:55PM
Yeah, well Windows is pretty damn expensive in time as well. Can't tell you the number of times I've had to copy files onto the Unix systems at work in order to get stuff done, because even the simplest tasks are goddamn impossible on a Windows system. How do you do basic manipulation of a 500+ meg pipe-delimited text file in Windows for example? No grep, no sed, no awk, uniq, sort...and text editors crash just trying to open the damn thing! A single text-only SSH session to a *nix system is more valuable to me than an entire Windows workstation.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday December 20 2014, @09:51PM
Its called Powershell [microsoft.com], been around for over a decade now, and its trivial to extend to do anything you want with cmdlets, not that you'll actually need to because its created with input from fortune 500 companies so pretty much all the basic use cases you can come up with? they'l have already thought of and had built in.
Don't blame Windows for you not bothering to use the tools that are right there and built for the task at hand, hell you can even run bash on Windows if that floats your boat, so there really is no excuse other than you just haven't bothered to learn how to use the tools you have been handed...now who's fault is that?
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 18 2014, @07:59PM
urza already hit the point about having to waste money on MICROS~1's fragile junk -then- having to waste time on it as well.
No, thanks. BTDTGTTS. Nevermore.
broke my drivers [...] upgrade deathmarch
If you're seeing that, the problem is YOU.
Your crappy hardware vendor took your cash and laughed at you.
The reason you have problems with Linux is that you can't make a clean break from the closed-code mentality and will continue to give cash for such products--even when they are horribly broken.
...and I have old hardware (running under Linux) that doesn't have drivers available for the latest Windoze versions.
I already pointed at gycklarn who experienced the same thing.
The problem is the inverse of what you have stated.
taking the challenge
I haven't experienced any of that.
As I already mentioned, people who don't give good money for crap hardware with crap support don't encounter the problem.
-- gewg_