Newegg: sort prod­ucts by most re­views - I find prod­ucts with more re­views to be more trust­wor­thy + the fact that ex­pe­ri­enced buy­ers are more like­ly to re­view pur­chas­es in the first place and more like­ly to re­view pur­chas­es that they found very sat­is­fac­to­ry + I al­so think the ag­gre­gat­ed star rat­ing is more re­li­able with more re­views like you said, so sort­ing by most re­views makes this easier to use.
Ama­zon: sort prod­ucts by best­selling - Ama­zon is a bit hard­er espe­cial­ly when shop­ping for elec­tron­ics be­cause their cus­tomers are less tech-savvy in gen­er­al and thus their re­views are less re­li­able, but gen­er­al­ly the prod­ucts that sell more are in­deed bet­ter, and since Ama­zon’s se­lec­tions are less than Newegg’s it’s easier to fine-sort them by your­self when you have one re­li­able au­to­mat­ic sorter in place

Do you mind if I share this?

“The user-in­ter­­face prob­lems that many Lin­ux pro­­grams face can­not be fixed with­­out a more com­mer­­cial-like de­vel­op­­ment mod­­el, or more full-time (may­be paid!) work­ers. Un­til that hap­pens, Lin­ux is like­­ly to re­­main an in­fe­ri­or pro­­duct in the eyes of the pub­­lic.”

I think one of the main ad­van­tages of Lin­ux is that it is less com­mer­cial than other sys­tems - it’s a sys­tem made by re­al peo­ple and most­ly un­touched by cor­po­rate mar­keters who want to ma­nip­u­late you in order to ex­tract from you your money. Lin­ux is an open and free (li­bre) sys­tem with free (li­bre) drivers and util­i­ties. In order to be­come a pop­u­lar desk­top OS, that would have to change. This is not pos­si­ble due to the terms of the GPL, and if it were pos­si­ble, you’d loose the main ad­van­tages of Lin­ux.

In­stead, if there’s to be a Unix based Desk­top OS that’s to be a com­peti­tor to Win­dows, it needs to be made from the ground up.
Per­haps it could be based on FreeB­SD or some­thing at the low­er levels, but the UI and graph­ics sys­tems could be com­plete­ly new and fresh. It would need to be de­vel­oped by a cor­po­ra­tion rather than a com­mu­ni­ty (but a com­mu­ni­ty could as­sist, since the base would be FreeB­SD, which is open).

Or some­thing. I’m not a soft­ware engi­neer, so I’m prob­a­bly wrong. This is just my idea though, the main point I want to make is that Lin­ux is per­haps not meant to take over the Desk­top OS mar­ket, and if you want it to, you’re try­ing to make Lin­ux out to be some­thing that it isn’t.

“GNOME’s user-in­ter­­face has not been tru­­ly up­­dat­ed for years”

Good. I use GNOME, and its cur­rent de­sign works well and has worked well for years. There’s no point in chang­ing some­thing just for the sake of chang­ing it. In­stead, the GNOME pro­ject should work on fix­ing things that ac­tu­al­ly need fix­ing, like GNOME’s pan­el (which is full of glitch­es) or the lack of con­fig­u­ra­tion op­tions for the Metac­i­ty win­dow man­ager.

“Over­all, Win­­dows is just more pleas­ant to use.”

Apart from the re­spon­se times, this is just an opin­ion. I would hon­est­ly prefer GNOME (at least as it is now) to Win­dows 2000 or XP (and espe­cial­ly vis­ta and OS X), and so would others. Have you con­sid­ered the pos­si­bil­i­ty that a big part of the prob­lem that you have with Lin­ux is that it’s just dif­fer­ent to what you’re used to?

Did you ap­proach Lin­ux think­ing “I want a re­place­ment for Win­dows” or “this looks in­ter­est­ing, I think I’ll try it”?

did you get the com­ma as a dead key work­ing un­der X?
I re­al­ly find that ddvo­rak lay­out very in­no­va­tive, but with­out the , as dead key
its some kind of use­less