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Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops?

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Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> writes:

> I've been recently fighting a major uphill battle with adding a second
> monitor to my desktop, and in what is quite possibly a fit of insanity,
> went and compiled CDE from source. The end result is surprisingly usable
> though Motif has some hiccups with dealing with X apps that are a bit
> too smart (pinentry-x11) for their own good.

I remember I hated CDE on my Sun workstation back in the 90s. Eventually
we were allowed to upgrade to fvwm2.

I liked Gnome 2 OK but when Gnome 3 wiped my careful customizations of
it in some update I kicked it and went to KDE on my laptop.

> I'd like to say that this is a *NIX only problem, but Windows 8 and 10
> also pail in comparison for usability and "getting stuff done" that 7
> had.

I don't have a problem with Windows 10 or 7, haven't used 8 much. I use
both 7 and 10 at work currently. Also run 10 at home (games or the
occasional Windows-only thingy.) The two basic Windows tweaks I like
(sloppy focus and caps-to-control) were a little different from 7 as I
recall. Other than that I don't see much of a difference. Well I guess I
have no use for smart tiles or Cortana but I don't have to.

As for Linux, I run Awesome WM on my Debian stable desktop at home and
KDE on my laptop with Ubuntu 16.10. I don't have a problem with those
either although I guess they couldn't be more different. (Awesome is a
tiling WM configured with LUA code.) I like the eye candy of KDE and the
easy config options and support for the laptop's thingies (keys,
navpoint, lights, radios). Also KDE runs fine on my six year old
Thinkpad X200(ish?) laptop with Intel's Ironlake GPU.

And just as well I like Awesome's approach where mouse is optional and
where you tie apps to tags and select what's visible based on tag and
(mostly) let the WM sort out window sizes for you. Wouldn't want to set
it up on more than one PC though.

I dunno, for me computers are tools. Can't seem to get that bothered
about them.

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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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