[arflech]

I'd like to think that "Nixie Pixel" is her given/actual name, but I can't imagine anyone has parents that cool.

It's Nicole Allen, as her Patreon says; also I'm trying to figure out just what her cup size is.

[Lightfoot]

I thought I noticed that the Cinnamon version of Mint Linux allows you to highlight a folder with a color (just like on Macs).  In switching from a Mac to Windows, that was one of my big complaints (and the lack of quick view).

[Palomine]

I thought I noticed that the Cinnamon version of Mint Linux allows you to highlight a folder with a color (just like on Macs).  In switching from a Mac to Windows, that was one of my big complaints (and the lack of quick view).

Not having color highlights was one of my BIGGEST complaints when I first switched from MacOS to Linux a few years ago. I probably asked/bitched about it here and various places online ad nauseum.

Mint/Cinnamon is probably my favorite Linux distro (though I'm not using it anywhere atm since I couldn't get version 17 to install properly on my PC) and I had no idea it had such a feature. Of course, being able to color folders and files in the OS GUI is nice, but it'd be even better if it recognized/used the EXISTING colors of items ("labels") from MacOS itself, so a red-colored folder brought over from a Mac still showed up red in Mint/Cinnamon.

Are you suggesting that this is how it works? I'm curious.

[Lightfoot]

it'd be even better if it recognized/used the EXISTING colors of items ("labels") from MacOS itself, so a red-colored folder brought over from a Mac still showed up red in Mint/Cinnamon.

Are you suggesting that this is how it works? I'm curious.

I can't guess, I just noticed it in screenshots (that I can't seem to find again now).  I'd have to assume they aren't compatible, and that it won't use the same colors from a Mac, but at least it's a step in the right direction.

I can't find a clear answer about when it was added, or even that it was added, but one site implied this was installed by default on Mint Linux Cinnamon - http://foldercolor.tuxfamily.org/  Which works in at least some other versions of Linux.

Pal says: thanks for the info Lightfoot... I will file it away for future use. -Pal

[TheZookie007]

You may find this interesting:

NetworkWorld.com: "A Linux user tries out Windows 10"

[rtpoe]

From Randall "xkcd" Munroe:

[TheZookie007]

From his Instagram account: for shizzle!

[Palomine]

From his Instagram account: for shizzle!

That's pretty funny... looks like it was taken from a video... is his desk actually moving and that's a stormtrooper on some sort of future scooter chasing him? If so, it's even funnier! Thanks Zook!

I'm never surprised anymore when I learn someone I didn't expect uses Linux. Linux is just like that.

Added later:

This is Intel's "Compute Stick" ...a full (Windows-capable) computer on a small stick that you plug into the HDMI port of a TV or display: http://www.cnet.com/products/intel-compute-stick/ It's $150 for the version with 2GB or RAM and 32GB storage with Windows or you can get it with less storage and no Windows for $100. (that 1GB RAM/8GB storage version comes with Ubuntu Linux, and though 1GB will run Linux, I'd rather pay the extra $ for the one with more storage and put Linux on that). Per the article, it's similar to the Asus Chromebit: http://www.cnet.com/products/asus-chromebit/ which costs $100 and runs (you guessed it) Chrome instead of Windows or Linux.

[TheZookie007]

Microsoft has just released a code editor that runs natively on Linux. The end of the world may be upon us...

[Palomine]

Microsoft has just released a code editor that runs natively on Linux. The end of the world may be upon us...

Not to be a persnickety pedant, but I think they meant to say "we'll" not "well." I think me pointing that out is fair, considering it's an editor, of sorts, fer cripesake. 

[TheZookie007]

Oh yeah, I noticed that too...my red pencil is ineffective on Twitter, unfortunately...

[gonZo]

Typical Microsoft attention to detail... "Well" instead of "We'll", and two spaces after the period as if it's 1982 or something...

[Palomine]

Typical Microsoft attention to detail... "Well" instead of "We'll", and two spaces after the period as if it's 1982 or something...

Allow me to b1tch about current/recent Microsoft stuff for just a moment, wherein they're producing products as if it were 1982 instead of 2015. Most of these complaints have been wasting my time on a daily basis for the last few years:

In Word (running Win7 but I think this applies elsewhere) hitting the Home and End buttons on the keyboard do NOT take you to the start and end of the open document, unlike how those buttons work in web browsers and just about every other word processing application.

In Word, when you find/replace one word with another, Word makes you click not once but twice (to acknowledge that the operation is complete and to then close the original dialog box it inexplicably leaves open) AFTER the operation is done. That's two more clicks than necessary... once you've told it what to do, it should just go do it and let you get back to editing/writing immediately, like most other word processing apps do.

In Win7 and (I think) Win8 also, when you're using Word (or, presumably other applications, or perhaps just those from Microsoft itself) and you Save As a document to a specific location, the next time you want to Save As it does NOT default back to the most recently-used location, requiring you instead to navigate there all over again.

On a brand-new Win8 PC using the installed/default PDF viewer that comes with the OS, it's almost impossible to select a specific string of text from inside a PDF in order to copy/paste it into Word. It's like your mouse cursor is suddenly epileptic. This is not a problem doing the same thing in Win7.

In Win7 and Win8 both, when you delete a file from within the file manager GUI, it often stays visible for up to a minute, or unitl you close that window and re-open it again. WTF is that about?

Don't get me started on the endless stream "your update is ready to install" notices that pop up in the lower-right-hand corner of the desktop, or how clicking the little wrench icon on the notice to (supposedly) jump through hoops to tell the system you don't want such notices accomplishes absolutely nothing: no matter how you set it, you get more notices like that every time you start the machine.

Oh, the bit where Windows7 basically forces you to install a pending update when you choose to shutdown: you are NOT given the option to install it later (as you are in MacOS and every distro of Linux I've ever used) ...you're ready to leave work and drive home, so you choose shutdown (not even knowing there's an update pending) and suddenly: you have to wait at work for an extra 20 minutes to an hour whether you like it or not. Whatever Microsoft software development manager who decreed there shouldn't be a "no, do it later" option ought to have his (or her) giblets slathered with honey and ghost pepper hot sauce and planted on an anthill each afternoon for the rest of his (or her) life.

...these are just a few quick examples that spring to mind atm. It's like the people who design/build/test/market Microsoft products don't actually use those products themselves to get work done in their daily lives. That sort of thing might have been forgivable in 1982 when OSes/apps were "y0ung" but now? It's just sloppy work, and IMO shows contempt for customers. I can't imagine that all Microsoft employees actually have Linux partitions on their work PCs, and run LibreOffice or OpenOffice to conduct their actual daily business, or that they've secretly got MacBooks in their desk drawers to use instead of Windows, but how else to explain how such ridiculous oversights could make it to market and remain unfixed more-or-less indefinitely? They've been making operating systems and application software for THIRTY EFFING YEARS! You'd think they'd have figured out how to get the easy stuff right by now, wouldn't you?

[TheZookie007]

I'll address each of those pain points in a minute, but part of it may come from your being used to the Mac way of doing things.

[Palomine]

I'll address each of those pain points in a minute, but part of it may come from your being used to the Mac way of doing things.

I'll happily read your points, but don't go to any trouble on my account. As for me being "used to" the Mac way of doing things... I'm not really a Mac guy, though that's the OS I spent the most years with. I'm 90% Linux for the past few years and I use Windows all the time for work (and have reluctantly used various versions of it over the past 20 years) so I think I'm pretty much just used to computer operating systems in general by now.

I don't doubt that there's utilities and adjustments that could/can be made to address most of the points I raised... and I have looked through the Window's own various settings (I have time to kill at work sometimes) ad nauseum... if there ARE built-in ways within Win7 to adjust the behaviors I pointed out, they're so hidden and/or unclear that they might as well not exist.

Computers are supposed to be used to get stuff done, without requiring their users to tweak them just to avoid inconvenient time-wasters like those I mentioned. It's just sad to see that at this late date (30 years+ after the beginning of small PCs) Windows7 and Windows8 still get so much of the simple stuff so wrong. I'll never stop being amazed that Microsoft has 90% of the small PC OS market, considering the state of their products.