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Listed below are comments made by Skashion between Tuesday, 27th October 2009 and Monday, 16th November 2009.

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The anonymous bullies 4:13pm on 16 Nov 2009 Don't you know that society has been decaying since the ancient Greeks at the hands of youthful immorality and deteriorating levels of intelligence? Hark at the not-my-generation generations who followed them...
Vaz v Watson - Modern Warfare 2 08:15am on 10 Nov 2009 Games always get hammered far more than any other medium and I can think of only one reason why; politicians are usually ageing men who've most likely never played one. It's so much easier to scapegoat a technology which they themselves don't use. TV and film violence couldn't be harmfu, after all, scrupulous politicians watch television and films without needing to stab or shoot anybody. No, all of Britain's problems must stem from gamers. Let's forget the assault on the working class that has occurred in the last thirty years. Let's disregard the knowledge that social mobility is no higher than in 1979. Let's ignore the fact that there are millions of people who are perpetually unemployed, including a staggering amount of graduates (it's not just a case of becoming 'skilled' as the government so erroneously claims). Let's applaud the reality that the wages of the top 10% have soared since 1979 whilst real wages for the rest of us have declined. Who cares about paying the mortgage or putting food on the table? Those are just minor inconveniences, gamers are clearly the real issue.
24 hours with Ubuntu 3:16pm on 02 Nov 2009 #362 Lasse Havelund

I use Ubuntu, amongst other distributions, but I can't really see what sets it apart from other distros. I've actually found distributions like PCLinuxOS easier to use. I've also found other communities I like better than than Ubuntu community, and I know I'm certainly not alone. In my experience, the zealotry you see in the Ubuntu community is the most juvenile because Ubuntu is the gateway distribution. Anti-Microsoft sentiment can be well-informed - and I say this as a Windows 7 user as well. It can range from philosophical disagreement i.e. free software movement, to criticism of Microsoft's business tactics of which Microsoft have been found guilty and been convicted. That's the sort of criticism you get from more advanced users rather than fanboys who've hopped on the Linux bandwagon a few months or so ago, and just hate Microsoft because they think it's the thing to do.
24 hours with Ubuntu 3:26pm on 29 Oct 2009 MrFaulty

"Correction: The original story incorrectly identified reviews for the release candidate of Ubuntu 9.10 as being for the final version of Ubuntu 9.10."
24 hours with Ubuntu 01:13am on 28 Oct 2009 My post above was in response to #253, Gurubear, which I forgot to say obviously.
24 hours with Ubuntu 00:58am on 28 Oct 2009 Much of your post is merely subjective, and as such, I won't comment on it other than to say that I don't agree with it.

However, what I do have a problem with is comparing the learning curve of ANY Operating System with knowing how a car works to the point where you could service it yourself. It is a really poor analogy. No, of course the vast majority of people don't want to learn those skills. Moreover, its impossible for everyone to be an expert in everything. It wouldn't work. That is not what is being asked of them. The Linux community is not asking everyone to become a developer. The learning curve is far more akin to getting used to a new car interior or the layout of a new TV remote, rather than learning how the car or the TV as an organic whole actually function so that you can fix them.
24 hours with Ubuntu 7:39pm on 27 Oct 2009 thorper

It maybe resource hungry compared to Linux but Windows 7 is much better than Vista and has comparable, even slightly favourable, performance when compared to XP. It benchmarks slightly better than XP on netbooks anyway. The mere fact that it will run on a netbook when Vista couldn't i.e. it wasn't usable, shows that Windows 7 is a step in the right direction.
24 hours with Ubuntu 4:46pm on 27 Oct 2009 lanser

Likely Rory is confused and doesn't understand that OS X (Rory is a Mac user - a lot of people here have falsely assumed that he is a Windows user) is not open-source but rather has open-source underpinnings.
24 hours with Ubuntu 4:10pm on 27 Oct 2009 Steveh11

Your only reason not to try it which made sense is where you said you wouldn't want to jump straight in but you don't want to dual boot. Maybe you should try a Wubi install then? You can install Ubuntu within Windows without partitioning anything. It's all automated and can be uninstalled just like any other Windows software.
24 hours with Ubuntu 07:14am on 27 Oct 2009 allabouttowler

GNU/Linux has Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. The fact that they are not well known is indicative of the relatively small presence of Linux on the desktop. Within the Linux world, they are extremely well known, and if Linux on the desktop does take off some day, they will become synonymous with the OS as Jobs and Gates are. I'd also like to chip in on Woz's and Allen's behalf. Especially for Woz. Woz is the reason why Apple survived beyond the Apple II, not Jobs. Jobs would have ruined Apple's cash cow.

sv3rma

But market share affects the user experience in both positive and negative ways. It's certainly not irrelevant. Also, Rory mentioned it in the original blog so people were probably responding to that.

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