A reflection on the state of the Linux desktop, written to hopefully
spare others a lot of wasted time:
It was time to upgrade my primary desktop. I prefer Centos for
servers and Ubuntu for desktops, and Ubuntu 12.04.1 was just released,
suggesting a more refined bundle of Ubuntu. I've
Hey Jeff,
I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 for the last 6 months or something and I
like it. Although I also don't run unity and instead run Awesome
Window Manager which is a cool tiling window manager.
Jason
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
A reflection on the
Looks very lean. I had no idea this WM existed.
We're _REALLY_ going to wish we had this sort of choice with Windows, in
several months, when our users complain about the funny squares that
ate the start menu in Windows 8, and we can't simply switch in the
desktop they'd rather have.
Vive
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:17:03 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
Gnome 3 is not really ready for prime time.
If you're using Ubuntu 12.04 and don't like Unity, go straight to Mate
Desktop and don't waste your time playing with the others.
Thanks for your impressions of Unity and Gnome. I
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Peter Besenbruch pe...@besenbruch.info wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:17:03 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
Gnome 3 is not really ready for prime time.
If you're using Ubuntu 12.04 and don't like Unity, go straight to Mate
Desktop and don't waste your
When KDE made the jump from 3 to 4 it annoyed me because I used
Konsole (which was awesome) as my primary terminal which was then
replaced by a crappy bare bones KDE 4 Konsole... I eventually
switched to just running Gnome terminal.
Konsole was wonderful. I agree.
The problem is that
