@Apostropartheid: If that's the case, why do they keep getting attention? It's done, it works, the point's made. The concept's been proven and featured multiple times already.

That's a port of Quake II, not Quake. The name of the project is even "Quake2DS".

@mattfredfry: It does if you do it in an HTML-happy way. The comments accept some tags (like <b>) so you have to use the &lt; and &gt;. (and &amp; to get those examples to not parse ;)

@Jagermeister: Using someone else's computer for a quick edit, I guess that makes sense, though it seems like you could use a portable-app version of something just as easily.

@Marand: I can actually think of one very good reason to have a browser-based image editor: collaboration. There's a major lack of collaborative drawing apps out there, both native and browser-based, and it's a shame.

First, a video gripe. Using the generic tiger vector in the "this is what you can do!" intro was kind of misleading: that predates CloudCanvas and definitely wasn't made in it. That makes me question how useful it is for real creation, if they couldn't make something themselves to show its usefulness.

I've actually been looking for something like this for a while. It seemed like a natural feature for them, but this is the first one I've heard of to do it.

@sugardeath: You're probably right; I thought about that after I got halfway through typing out my comment.

@senshikaze: Yeah, sorry about how that came out. It was supposed to be a light jab at the "Linux sucks" gripe sites/rants that always seem to mention it, not at you. I thought you were referring to them with the talking head thing.

It should be noted that your "killall X" example is a completely different thing than closing an offending application.

@TheFu: You can still do that now. KDE's window manager (kwin) calls xkill with ctrl+alt+escape, and even if a window manager doesn't have a similar shortcut you make one with xbindkeys. (Install xbindkeys and xbindkeys-config)

@senshikaze: The "too many subsystems" thing usually comes from people that don't know what they're talking about. ALSA and Pulseaudio are not equivalent at all and have different purposes. I'm not a fan of Pulseaudio itself, but it has reason to coexist with ALSA.

@TheFu: That's obviously not a normal usage scenario and has completely different requirements (as you noted). Using something slim like xterm or rxvt or just sticking to console definitely makes more sense there.

@Whitson Gordon:

It's nice to see this sort of thing for Linux too. Lifehacker's a rarity on the internet: a site that actually covers Linux alongside OS X and Windows.

@Whitson Gordon: Makes sense, but it would still be nice to see mention of non-GNOME apps. The desktop environments aren't mutually exclusive and you can mix-and-match the apps all you want.

@IN THE FACE!: You can be using Ubuntu and still have KDE installed. Focusing on Debian derivatives makes sense, but there's no reason to ignore Qt-based apps just because they're made with KDE libs and Qt.

@TheFu: I like Konsole in KDE. Profiles, tabs, fullscreen mode, and I like how it works with other parts of KDE, such as how it handles URLs.

@Eric Robinson: Good tip. I can't promote you manually because of how the site does thread promotions, so hopefully replying will give your comment the bump it deserves.

@eagles500: The same is true of a lot of GNOME apps. A lot of Gtk apps require ridiculous amounts of GNOME junk (Mono, I'm looking at you).