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And another, if the Round Rock area counts. 
Every time I've been in our MS store it's been fairly busy with sales. I'm trying to hold out for a Gen 2 Pro to replace my ultrabook, but we'll see...
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And, heading still further north, I'm in Kempner. :p
EDIT: And I somehow managed to log in with the "wrong" account.
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I know 3 people (myself included) who are very happy with their Surface Pro8. 
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 I actually kind of like it too... but it does seem like MS is coming in late in the game on this. We'll see if they stand the test of time or flop in the tablet market. It's not good news to have a major hardware manufacturer(s) say your OS isn't good.
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I expect that if MS deals with the complaints department the rest will catch on. It's a great toy tool for all kinds of things!
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The only reason I haven't bought a Surface Pro is because I'm perfectly happy with a Lenovo Yoga 13 running Windows 8.
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I think they could have handled the switch to the metro UI a bit better. At this point it's almost like they're trying to force desktop users to use it. It is sad to see it compared to Vista so much...
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I compare it more to Windows ME. Vista wasn't that bad...
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Forogar wrote: Windows ME
THAT was a serious catastrophe... 
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Yes. They are trying to ram Metro down their desktop users' throats. Big mistake. Vista is an apt comparison, as it was trying to ram UAC and a major device driver change down users' throats.. and it wasn't too successful at it. We had to wait till Windows 7 before users accepted those changes. Fortunately for Vista, it was at least useable without significant user retraining, which isn't the case for Windows 8.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Everybody on codeproject predicted this ages ago.
This is just validation that, yes, we were RIGHT.
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If it's not based on Xorg then why should it matter *who* controls it?
It's always good PR if it improves the public's experience of open source. Which at times can fall short on the community friendliness when n00bs are dealing with hardware & configuration problems. Not something I've encountered in Ubuntu forums, though.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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dusty_dex wrote: If it's not based on Xorg then why should it matter *who* controls it?
I think most of the issue with Mir is the fact that rather than work with an existing open source solution, they're going with their own, basically reinventing the interface. Although everyone is entitled to make up their own solution, the splinters in Linux are tiring to deal with as an end-solution application provider.
Some people do expect Linux distros that are taking advantage of the GNU licensed kernels to contribute to the open source development community and that's where I guess people see Ubuntu as heading in the "evil corporation" direction with closing off some of their source.
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Yep, fragmentation is a problem with open source (always will be). I don't like it much either. 
You only have to count the number of Linux distros in existence. Almost a thousand last time I checked.
Hardly a ringing endorsement by OSS-types for accepting what's already available. But I guess that you're probably right about wanting to keep Mir in-house.
Along with Google and Microsoft, they to seem to want a slice of Apple's hardware ecosystem.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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dusty_dex wrote: they to seem to want a slice of Apple's hardware ecosystem
Guess we can't blame them for that... that a nice Apple pie to steal a slice off of. 
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Still lots questions as to which consumer electronics sector Apple iFrenzies next.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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dusty_dex wrote: You only have to count the number of Linux distros in existence. Almost a thousand last time I checked.
Hardly a ringing endorsement by OSS-types for accepting what's already available.
I was just talking about this with my brother last night. Most linux distro's are so similar, if you've used a couple of them you can make your way around any of them. They all deal with the standard file system, and you can put your shell of choice on top of them (though the most common is bash). You also install the same desktop environments (gnome, kde, xfce, etc) which make them even more similar.
The main difference is the package manager and the tools you choose to install.
If it moves, compile it
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Even the package managers are shared across a bunch of distros. Usually the biggest difference will be what packages they choose to bundle and some of their default settings. The big problem is that they're just different enough where it's hard to get software working consistently across all platforms (specially GUI based applications, which is I guess where the reliance on the terminal comes from)
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yeah, I considered GUI based appliations to be like some IDE's, a web browser, stuff like that. Anything I really want to work I learn how to do in the terminal
If it moves, compile it
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No, reliance on the terminal comes from having a really powerful terminal that allows you to easily do things that will probably never be possible in a GUI.
Back when I was using Linux a lot, I generally avoided GUI admin tools because I generally found them harder to use than the terminal. They all seem to suffer from the poor organization and incomplete feature set that the Windows admin GUIs suffer from. Of course, Linux also inherited a culture that encouraged app developers to use sensibly formatted plain text config files, which left experienced users with little motivation to spend effort improving the GUI tools, creating a nice little feedback loop.
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I knew these two guys working for a local charity that was funded by the EU, *allegedly* to support local regeneration.
They were supposed to deliver a working web site and provide technical support etc, for the walk-in customers. One of the guys just kept out of sight, re-configuring servers and moaning about connection speeds and asking for better equipment. The phone exchange was on the other side of a fence next door. The other was a linux hacker, armed with Gentoo which requires recompiling source code (that's the package management in Gentoo) - he frittered away the hours doing nothing much in particular. Usual response, "oh just waiting for a compile to finish." (just like the guy in Jurassic Park) This guy liked pies too.
Horror of horrors! they lost their funding after 2 years. Go figure.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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sounds like a programmer problem, not a gentoo problem.
If it moves, compile it
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