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| From | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? |
| Date | Tue, 14 Mar 2017 23:17:22 -0400 |
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Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> writes: > On 03/13/2017 09:03 PM, RS Wood wrote: > least Motif tends to fit in with Thunderbird and Firefox. I might give > it a go when I nuke my desktop back to the stone age as I suspect it's > simply Ubuntu/Debian's version of WM is screwy. I'm hoping for > something less screwy under Gentoo, though I'm semi-debating just > hopping on the FreeBSD train. Michael I don't see how changing operating systems gains you much of anything at all. A windowmanager on BSD is likely to be no different than the same windowmanager on a Linux distro, with the exception of defaults and a few installation choices (I used to find kubuntu to work poorly, while opensuse did a better job of packaging and pre-configuring KDE).
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Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> - 2017-03-12 20:38 -0400
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2017-03-13 12:58 +0000
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-13 21:03 -0400
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> - 2017-03-13 22:31 -0400
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-14 23:17 -0400
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2017-03-15 07:00 -0500
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2017-03-15 11:37 -0400
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2017-03-16 08:29 -0500
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-03-16 16:22 +0200
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2017-03-18 20:02 +0100
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-19 19:06 -0400
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> - 2017-03-24 12:58 -0400
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Pham Nuwen <phamnuwen@example.com> - 2017-03-14 09:50 -0700
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-03-14 03:03 -0500
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-14 11:47 -0400
Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2017-03-14 12:42 +0200
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