Quite honestly, i think these guys like the way Debian 6 is.

The harder a distro is to use, and the more insane errors it throws your way (which btw, don’t teach you computer science), the more rad you will appear in front of the other freetards, and the more it 'll help you score with the chicks (well, maybe not that last one).

I am seriously tempted to make a distro that will feature an ENIAC-inspired user interface. I can already see the “rad” users coming.

They don’t?

Shoot, I threw away a degree in the fscking subject and twenty five years of industry experience, and all for Debian 6?

I am mildly aggrieved.

And did I mention? They’ve dropped support for ARM.

Did I not mention that?

I can already hear the deafening waves of silence.

Good thing popularity for ARM isn’t increasing or anything.

“Good thing popularity for ARM isn’t increasing or anything.”

ARM on the desktop/laptop was pretty unlikely from day 1. Even if Windows 8 came to ARM, ARM was never going to make it to the laptop/desktop. This is because developers would have to publish two versions of the same app (one for the hyge install base of x86 and one for the new ARM) and there is absolutely no sane logic behind that.

ARM on the desktop/laptop was yet another anti-windows snake oil by the loontards, similar to cloud apps. But it was rendered obsolete when Microsoft announced that windows can run n ARM too.

On the other hand, ARM on the tablet is already happening. I bet that this ARM version of Windows 8 will be a tablet version. This is were linux has a chance to compete. And if it fails, there will be no “microsoft has dominant position” excuses.

@kurkosdr, Surely not laptops but what about tablest, smartphones and alike? That’s were mobile (as for now) is going.