somedev

The trick is to not respond for an hour and hope their next message is "nvm, fixed it"

And this is why monetary fines for companies that makes billions of dollars is just considered the cost of doing business.

Edit: deleted my duplicate comment - not sure why that happened :S

Ye olde Yoter

THE SAME. THE FISH?

I think both can be true. I just mean if we're talking about a company paying for Microsoft Office vs LibreOffice.

Awesome, I've been wanting to get some new controllers for my deck - without having those back buttons working it seemed pointless.

Probably better to think of spending their money on an open ecosystem, instead of just using something for "free". If software products have sufficient funding they can better improve the products and can continue to exist - without some form of monetisation most wouldn't still be around.

Betamax

For that last one, how bad are we talking? I need to know soon, I have some important banking software I need to develop.

Where E-Peen?

It was Ubuntu 14.10 (still had Unity) installed on a Mac mini to run a Plex server. I actually really liked Ubuntu then, it was all new and very different to Windows. I had it hooked up to a TV and used the DE to maintain it I.e console, update app etc.

There was this really annoying error that would occur every time it would boot which drove me to look elsewhere. Ended up trying Arch and didn't put a DE on there because I started to get comfortable with the terminal and SSHing in.

I eventually installed Arch on my desktop and dual booted for a couple years using XFCE. Once I discovered KDE there was no going back.

I haven't used Windows on any of devices for years, all running Fedora and KDE.