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 a
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 wrote:
> A reflection on the state of the Li
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 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 fear Gnome
Thanks, Peter
It's interesting to hear about everyone's desktop preferences. I
really like XFCE too. I experimented with XFCE and LXDE and concluded
that XFCE was more robust and mature than LXDE. I currently use XFCE as
the desktop for a number of email users. I have a few servers at
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:19:25 -1000
Jeff Mings wrote:
> Thanks, Peter
>
> It's interesting to hear about everyone's desktop preferences. I
> really like XFCE too. I experimented with XFCE and LXDE and concluded
> that XFCE was more robust and mature than LXDE.
Yes, it's a neat trick, a
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:17:03 -1000
> Jeff Mings 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 oth
> 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 l