Do _______ right away so you don't forget to do it later

I wasn't arguing for or against learning the command line... there's pros and cons to both.

The best excuse is "necessity." If you don't know how to do these things in Linux, you probably never need to do it... which is perfectly fine. If at some point down the line you need to learn it, it is really easy to do so. If you like programming in Windows, why switch?

... and suddenly my mind went "either he's going to be on this window manager for life, or he is going to have a lot to unlearn"

I'm not sure about the title of this article... "I Raised My Kids On the Command Line…and They Love It"

Don't worry about it. I didn't touch a command line or any sort of programming or anything until college and I turned out just fine.

Building a computer is pretty hard to mess up

My biggest reason for this is that some developers don't design their widgets to scale well, or sometimes they take the easy route and just make them non-resizable, so when I resize them they look funky.

I'm with Steven Thomas on this... nobody is going to adapt the "Ubuntu SDK"

I can't wait for the day when you can turn off the grid entirely

It's hard enough for developers to build apps for iOS and Android, let alone Windows Phone and Blackberry(laugh)... nobody is going to develop for this. The most people should hope for are crappy HTML 5 "apps." I don't foresee much quality native development.

It's not built around Android, but it may incorporate parts of Android. The website isn't totally clear, but it does at least say "it uses the same drivers as Android"

My point wasn't that they necessarily are or aren't watchable. I have no idea what the author's definition of watchable even is.

Is there an extension to get the old format back?

best font ever

"UIC? When Detroit, Valpo, Milwaukee, and Youngstown State repeatedly smash them"

probably the USB?

I'm sure artists get paid by Google too

Apple took something that was free that everyone loved, shut it down for a couple years, and then re-released it as a paid service... that is the mess I'm referring to. Google fixed it by making that once-free functionality free again.

According to the Engadget article: "matched songs will be available for streaming at 320Kbps like regular Google Play purchases, while re-downloaded music will be available at or close to the bitrate of the original file."