Choose the broadcast channel with the least interference. By default, your router probably broadcasts on Channel 11.

I still use IM and IRC daily. They are more immediate than email and more private than Facebook, without the concern that everything you say will be stored forever on Facebook's servers to be potentially reviewed by underpaid employees in thirld-world countries. ( [www.telegraph.co.uk] )

when 10 years ago you were considered an amateur if you used it

Some ideas:

Metro is designed primarily for use with touch screen technology. In that respect, it is slightly ahead of itself and will have haters until they all upgrade to equipment that the OS is designed for. It's almost like complaining that the latest version of whatever software won't work on your old ME machine!

Your comment sounded more like a snipe at some of the negative comments (which had already started showing up) than at the LH post itself, combined with a hint of "Microsoft is right, you're wrong", which is why I mentioned the business ties. I agree that the systems should evolve, and that can't happen without…

Haven't you said before that you work for Microsoft? I seem to remember you mentioning it several times in the past, but it's never mentioned in posts like this that criticise others for disliking something Microsoft has done.

Wow, and I thought the gestures were clumsy on a single display. That's terrible. I love hot corners, in fact I use them frequently for random things in KDE, but the win8 setup is just bad for it. Great example of the bad usability is the start button that pops up in the bottom left: it shows up like a giant…

If you're familiar enough with Linux to use Debian but want more current packages, you can switch from 'stable' to 'testing' - it tends to be more up to date than Ubuntu and works more like a rolling release, without being as dangerous as using 'unstable' directly.

Debian stable is where you want to go for that kind of thing. It's familiar enough if you already know Ubuntu or Mint, it's rock-solid, and it has installer options to set up a CLI-only bare-bones install. You can start with just a text shell and only install exactly what you need - minimal bloat - without having to…

I use scrot too (mentioned it in my comment, in fact) though I use its -e switch to move the file over to a dedicated screenshot directory. :)

I use two:

Beyond "why can't I turn off Metro?" the lack of customisation didn't even occur to me, to be honest. My everyday use system is Debian with KDE, so other GUIs tend to feel sparse on the tweaking (KDE makes just about everything modifiable through the GUI)

VOTE: Productivity-focused computer login.

Since the splitting is horizontal-only, it makes sense for the width of the resulution to be the determinant factor.

And I can't express how much I HATE the Ribbon and am not looking forward to that actually being in non-Office things now

Unfortunately, Metro is synonymous with Windows 8, like it or not. The Metro start screen replaces the start menu, things like shutdown are Metro-ised, and non-Metro configuration (such as the win7 control panel) are hidden away, out of easy reach. You're expected to make some sort of "cloud" login with your email…

The problem with that suggestion is everyone would just abandon the Metro UI on the desktop, which defeats the (likely) purpose: keeping windows-on-arm and the x86 version similar. WOA doesn't have the non-Metro components, and would just end up treated like windows embedded if not for the push to force everyone on…

If you are working then taking shortcuts makes sense. If you are talking to someone else who isn't in your field or its a final product then you generally don't.

If it has an integrated GPU, it's probably using part of the RAM for video memory, which means you'll never get the full listed RAM forapplications.