[BC] Linux

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 20 December 2011 11:09:59 am Alex Hartman wrote:
> Linux... desktop? What is this you speak of? ;)

 Wondering that meself !   :)

> Unfortunately it's a Windows world most of the time, so i run a Win7
> desktop, most of my servers however are Linux or FreeBSD.

 I do have several installations of various Windows from 3.0 through
 Server2008 and Vista, but all of them in virtual machines.
 No Win7 yet.

 All of the real machines are some derivative of Slackware these days. 

> The last time i used a linux based desktop was quite a while ago and i
> found it almost unusable.

 Back in the bad old days, the assumption was that you'd construct
 whatever you liked from the various GUI parts available.
 I have, and stayed with it for years.

 TKDesk as the primary file browser, with the FileRunner as a more
 universal ( built in FTP and such ) cross-network file access app.
 Opera 11 browser, backed up by Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror.
 Kmail as a primary "Microsoft compatible" web-page-instead-of-text
 HTML mail client, backed up by TKMail ( orders of magnitude faster )
 Then, various utility apps all from the FVWM app menus.

 I find KDE and Gnome much, MUCH too resource intense for my liking,
 but TWM a tad limited.
 I find all of the "boxed" desktop packages too bloated, and much
 too windows-ish.

 For me, I also run six simultaneous ( in windows parlance ) "desktops"
 as I find it so much easier to keep track of the 7 or 8 applications
 generally running simultaneously, and still keep two of these
 FVWM "desktops" available for remote machine access, each with
 their own "desktop."

 Just never got used to a "desktop" screen cluttered with hundreds
 of "shortcuts" none of which can be accessed with an open window.


-- 
Cowboy