@sugardeath: Mounting sub-filesystems is great, even if you don't want to — ahem — hide things. ;)

@31337h4ck3r: AcetoneISO looks interesting, especially considering it's in Debian's repository for quick install, but I'm more interested in what it uses to do the bulk of the work: fuseiso.

@TheFu: True, but it had a lot of representation in the voting. Far more than I expected, actually. Considering its versatility, I really shouldn't be surprised, but the command line tools usually don't get as many nods in the hive fives.

My weapon of choice is still mount -o loop. Kind of surprised it didn't make the vote, I saw a lot of nominations for it.

@Cheshire Cat: So you probably have an Intel GMA graphics chipset, right? Those were having a lot of problems in 10.04 due to changes with the intel driver and other parts of the Linux kernel, apparently. It's not consistent - my grandmother's machine crashes unless I use the generic vesa driver for X, but my…

@imito: Wine's performance varies greatly, depending on the app. Some games do things strangely — trickery that works fine in Windows, because Windows doesn't always follow its own rules — or may use calls that aren't optimised well.

@teknophilia20: I second KamWrex's suggestion to copyright. Not registering the copyright can make it a lot harder to prove ownership if you ever have to go to court over a copyright dispute.

@AmphetamineCrown: Only reasonable ways I can think of to deal with massive amounts of data are either tape or extra HDs. Tape has high capacity but may not be cost effective, so using HDs is probably the best option.

@iAndroid: I love arctic silver paste! Don't listen to duck, that's good stuff. :D

@Cheshire Cat: Not mentioning anything about your hardware (monitor model and GPU chipset are relevant here) makes it hard to offer suggestions.

@theminimalist: Didn't HP announce new WebOS smartphone(s) for next year? Just a vague announcement, but still something to be hopeful about if you like the platform.

@NicholeTech: You're not alone, I prefer the multi-window layout a lot, too. If you're used to multiple desktops or monitors it's a much better way to go, in my opinion. However, the vast majority of computer users are accustomed to a single display on an OS with crappy window management*, so it makes sense that a…

@hgoodman01: Oracle is known for a very hard "is it making me lots of money? no? kill it" stance on projects. Sun, prior to acquisition by Oracle, supported a lot of projects that weren't immediate money makers but improved open source for them and others.

@ArleenCabango: That was a good way to solve it for you, nice one. Unfortunately, though, I'm the only one in my family that's a stickler for "ask first, don't just assume I can do it" so it's harder for me. It's a big deal to me, because the things they want me to do can vary wildly in how much time and trouble it…

@markoi: Okay, you see it as a problem, but I see it as a useful feaure. 90% of the time I have layers the size of the image, and the other 10% I have a different size by my choice. Behaviour is consistent and easily learned, so it's not a bug, nor is it a crippling misfeature.

@ericesque: It's just not part of the default install that's on the Ubuntu boot disc. Once the computer's online it has full access to Ubuntu's package repositories for easy install and uninstall of anything listed. Just start up whatever Ubuntu uses for package management and search for Gimp.

@brother.shrike: Screen is better for remote sessions. It's easy to arbitrarily split the terminal, change the views on any 'window' screen has running, and you can detach from screen and leave the session intact. If you get disconnected it will automatically detach and your session will be there when you ssh into…

@ericesque: It's actually in the 2.7 release (dev release for upcoming 2.8) already. The script is just a way to force stable releases to do the same thing in a similar way.

@streeeeetch: So that's where it's hidden. Gimp.org makes it sound like they only supply source for dev releases, and words the win-gimp link as if it only supplies the latest stable.

@markoi: They aren't limited by their content; you likely didn't spend much time with it to understand the difference in behaviour.