@scoobertron: You can do it with JACK, too. Also, good call mentioning mpd :)

@Marand: Finally found some useful information. Basically, it's worthless without a Windows or OS X install you can access to change the configuration. You can't even initialise it without one. Too much hassle for a fun gimmick, so I'll stick with using cameras as USB storage.

The Eye-fi SD card sounds pretty awesome, but I can't find good information on how the setup part works. I'm assuming it's using some Windows or OS X binary for configuration?

@Prairie Moon: That works just for ~, but what about ~foo and ~bar? Not to mention tab completion.

@Whitson Gordon: In that case, ~username will really blow your mind. Bash will replace ~username with the home path of that user, and you can also do tab completion on it (ex. type ~use[tab] and get ~username). Shortcuts for all users, not just yourself!

@mikjackson77: I'll throw another vote in for MSE. It's supposed to have a good track record and in my experience it stays out of the way. I've been replacing other AV suites with it on family members' computers and haven't noticed any problems on XP (32b) or 7 (32b or 64b).

@Dnyde: You should probably keep multi-core rendering on unless it's causing problems. That might be an issue, though I don't think it's the sole problem here.

@pschroeter: Only thing I remember offhand that might help is here: [lifehacker.com]

@Gotlactose: Main advantage over just encrypting part of it is you don't have to worry about the OS leaving unencrypted versions of documents lying around (temp dirs, swap file, etc.), while the main disadvantage is performance. Encrypting everything adds a lot more cpu overhead than just encrypting part.

@pschroeter: Nice to hear it's working out better for you. Gimp used to have some major warts in the UI but it's not nearly as bad now, in my opinion. Gimp's been getting a lot of UI work since 2 or 2.2 or something like that.

@Kordan9090: Yep, things like this are why I use Linux primarily: I enjoy the openness of the whole thing. Still, I can't live in a vacuum, so I care about what happens to the other operating systems because their changes can still influence my computer use.

@Duc: The average guy would just leave the settings default, add no repositories, and go about his way. You can cater to both crowds if done right, and hopefully this is what Apple will do (though I have doubts).

@Gerardo.Zamudio: The fundamental idea is great (see APT) so it's not really surprising that people would want it.

@Duc: The problem will be if it doesn't allow external sources to be added by the user. I don't want to re-write the whole thing, but in a comment above ( [lifehacker.com] ) I explained why I think allowing external repositories is essential.

@Andrew McEnroe: He did, but it will become the de facto standard for it, which will inevitably discourage people from distributing independently.

None of these poll options apply to me, because the definition of "app store" here is ambiguous. I love the idea of a central location on my computer to check for updates and install new software, but I hate the idea of only being able to get software and updates if they're blessed by a single source such as Apple or…

@Duc: It's only the same if you can add your own repositories, which is unlikely because it would completely undermine Apple's control.

@zadtheinhaler: Ugh, yeah. The P3 part would be okay but the 256M will hurt. It's not so much KDE itself, but the requirements of modern apps combined with it, that makes it painful. GNOME's no better these days and even KDE3 will bog with certain apps (Firefox).

@zadtheinhaler: How old is your system? KDE4 should be usable on almost anything made in the past six years or so in my experience, though some tweaking may be necessary for old systems.

@Whitson Gordon: But if you start doing KDE tips I won't be able to post on the GNOME tip articles with "you can do this in KDE like so" or "here's a better trick in KDE"