You gathered quiet a few replies. Let add mine...
Rajeev Jha wrote:
> hi list
> mailing after quite a long time .. thing is my neighbours here view my
> linux box with much curiosity and not awe but pity , bcuz i can't listen
> to mp3s ( yes mp3 players are there and alsa has drivers for cirrus logic)
> i can't watch VCDs ( yes mtv is there , i got my login revoked once bcuz
> of it ;o) ) and i don't have a decent browser ( netscape really sucks ,
> lynx is well .. not suitable enough for today's sites and amaya simply
> bombs , have tried it also). and i can't do printing by click-click. so i
> asked them , anything else ? well they don't like this typing , and yes
> there is no recycle bin !!!!.
> mp3 , mpegs, sound i can quite understand, why
> the good support is there or not there ( now don't get back to me with
> threats to play aktion. etc. ...) but browser is really really horrible.
> there are so many of them , but not a decent browser on linux platform?
> this really sucks and sucks hard and half the time i am fighting with this
> useless netscape.
> other thing is the way people are opinionated.
> when we laugh about the denizens of click and point happy world, aren't
> we in the same way , opinionated about our CLI. dunno , any way i use
> linux more as an academic tool , so i am not the proper person to comment
> on it. but this really emerges as the hall-mark of computing in todays's
> world :
>
> having a recycle bin !!!!!!
recycle.bin? Ever tried Trash on KDE. Every right click on KFM has two options,
Delete and move to Trash. Though a change of terminology but yes functionality
is there.
About MP3 players, freeamp and xmms rocks. Winamp I find not good enough
compard to freeamp. My opinion. You decide. BTW can you tell me how do you
search music on your machine and import it in winamp? I don't know. I haven't
bothered to boot my home machine in windows for last couple of months.
But a 'cd /;find . -name *.mp3>/home/shridhar/MyMusic/freeamp.m3u'. does for me.
Xmms and Freeamp share the same playlist...
VCDs? Well Well... Do you know a trick? Resize your X display to 320x400. Keep
only one resoultion. Run 'mtvp' from another virtual shell with display as one
of the argument. you bet, movie plays a lot better and smoother than anything
else. Ever watched T2 with 24BPP with 2MB card? Do that in windows.....
Browser... I know Netscape sucks. But so what? What browser is better than
Netscape? Netscape on linux is notorious to crash. But disable java and and it
will go smooth. Further I find it easy enough to use. The hitch is font
rendering. But it definitely doesn't cause to suck. Even few sites I know can be
best rendered in linux rather than windows...
You want a good look? Try either konqueror from KDE2. You will have to wait
till it get in a distro. Probably by Nov. for RHL(plus PCQ... :-))). Or download
and compile KDE2. I bet you won't get a better desktop environment... Or try
QtScape. It's Netscape with Qt... Must be looking better. I am downloading it
myself. Now.. Why now... Because I never felt need to go away from
Netscape(Until it crashes and I need to restart it.). However to tell others, I
am downloading it.....
Hope you find it better now...
Sorry list... For wasting Bandwidth....
Bye
Shridhar
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