12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
7:12 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:19:43PM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:18:35 +0000
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Ah, I disagree. One certainly _can_ run whatever crap Ubuntu decides to
call the default graphics interface today, but one doesn't _have_ to.
There are plenty of more useful and usable (from my POV) alternatives.
I've been using pretty much the same UI for the last 12+ years: Windowmaker
WM[0], a metric ton of xterms (20-50, X is a _great_ graphical terminal
multiplexer, especially with the right window manager) and a graphical web
browser with a couple windows open, all of it on plain Debian. Most of what
I want to do gets done inside an xterm anyway.
I've actually tried to use a Mac (Mac Notebook) a year or two ago at work.
Couldn't get any work done and gave it back after a month, returning to the
Thinkpad running Linux and a variant of the above (mostly, fewer xterms *g*).
That's what I like about (reasonably modern) Unix systems: you can set them
up any kind of way to fit the user, they are extremly flexible.
Kind regards,
Alex.
[0] Big plus for WindowMaker in my book: it can be very easily controlled
via the keyboard only, mouse only needed to move windows (due to laziness)
and it has a pretty nice virtual desktop model.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
The thing that I like - which used to cause
protests, but it appears
to be fading now - is that after some 2 decades of busy, rapid
open-source Unix development, it is now getting to the point where it
is approaching the degree of user-friendliness of the best commercial
systems. In some areas, it's ahead; in some, behind. But it's getting
there, even when this is over the protesting howls of the Unix
old-timers.
Well. Thats why I say: Linux evolved from a free Unix clone for Unix
lovers into a bad Windows surrogate for M$ haters. ;-)