>From David Locklear ( Hit delete button really hard now, and mumble an expletive )
It sure is quite out there in speleo-land. Doesn't anybody want to talk about the NSS Convention, or the patio-project at the NSS Headquarters, or that giant bat fossil that was found of a bat that prefers to burrow into the Earth like a gopher ? I can only hope you all are sitting around the caver camp-fire or at least at a caver party, or better yet still underground or getting your cave pack ready to go underground in the morning. I subtly mentioned that I have been tinkering with Linux desktop computers. The link below shows what my computer screen looks like before I open an application. https://www.dropbox.com/s/wjsaay112olalsx/Screenshot%20-%20Rawhide.png?dl=0 Notice the little box that says, "Fedora 29." Fedora 29 has not been released to the general Linux user yet, which sort of gives you an idea how nerdy I am at the moment, or how out-of-touch with reality I am. Hopefully, you all have seen this photo that is in the image, and know what it it is or represents. For those of you who are interested, but have no idea what the link is displaying, that is the Gnome 3 desktop environment - the most despised desktop environment in the land of Linux geeks. The main advantage to that at the moment is that it allegedly works good on touchscreens ( similar to Android ), and that it uses a new display mechanism referred to as wayland ( wayland, being a functional prototype ). That does not do well on old laptops, especially those with Nvidia graphics. One thing to notice is that it is free of desktop icons or shortcuts. This is praised by Gnome-lovers ( all 99 of them ). Most users still prefer a traditional desktop similar to Windows 7 where you have your favorite icons on the screen, so most of the other Linux desktop environments are more like that. Gnome-lovers think that is messy to have desktop icons, and distracts from the screen artwork image ( like the one I am displaying here ). This Fedora 29 is not what I would recommend to anybody at least not until about November. However, "Peppermint 9" was released today, and it is getting rave reviews, in part because it is the easiest Linux distro to get Netflix as a desktop icon. I am convinced that in late 2019, Linux is going to finally get 2 % of the desktop computer market, but whatever percent it has, that will all be divided up by at least 40 distros, with not a single one getting 1 % of the market share of worldwide desktop computer usage, and whoever the winner of that is, that distro will be split up into at least 5 different versions of itself featuring a different desktop environment. Maybe it will be "Manjaro Xfce Edition (17.1.10)", being the winner with 0.3 % of the market. You will have to google that. Back to your regular scheduled program.... D.L.
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