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Re: creeping consensus

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Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 2/15/2013 4:06 AM, Donkey Hottie wrote:
>> Linux is the better alternative for a programmer anyway. At
>> least when we speak about non Microsoft programming technologies like Java.
> Is using Eclipse or NetBeans on Linux that much more productive
> than using the same on Windows?

On Windows, the scroll-wheel affects the focused component,
whereas on Linux the scroll-wheel affects whichever component
is currently under the mouse cursor.

On Linux (most WMs I've seen so far) you can drag a window
by pressing alt-Key, pressing left mouse button inside the
window, and dragging it around. (That helps quickly moving
windows away - even across the top edge of the desktop.)

On Linux you can move windows, even while they have a modal dialog
(like file-save, etc) open.

On Linux you just select text, and paste it with middle mouse-
button (besides having the option to do Ctrl-C/V, too.)

I'm not saying that everyone would care about these differences
enough to hurry installing Linux on their machines, but for sure,
the OS environment *is* relevant, even if one was only working
with a single cross-plattform tool. And these differences are 
only those I most painfully miss when circumstances force me to
work on a Windows machine.

PS: most of these features are not strictly Linux-specific but
   rather X11- or just "typical-WM"-specific.

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creeping consensus Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-15 00:13 -0800
  Re: creeping consensus markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-02-15 00:29 -0800
    Re: creeping consensus Donkey Hottie <donkey@fredriksson.dy.fi> - 2013-02-15 11:06 +0200
      Re: creeping consensus Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-24 17:46 -0500
        Re: creeping consensus Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-02-26 15:02 +0000
    Re: creeping consensus Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-02-15 05:57 -0400
    Re: creeping consensus Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-15 02:00 -0800
      Re: creeping consensus Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-02-15 06:21 -0400

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