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Yikes

#! Member

Registered: 2009-01-03

Posts: 51

Confessions of a cheater

I've been a #! user since 8.04. Recently, Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) caught my eye. I'll admit, the polished desktop interface had me thinking "OMG, shiny!". Actually, I think I just wanted to see how things had advanced in the Gnome world.

So, I tried out the LiveCD. I was relieved to know that LMDE had the same problems with my laptop hardware that Statler did. But, I went ahead and installed LMDE to the hard drive, but not before taking a full disk image with Clonezilla.

LMDE was installed on my laptop for less than a day. Yes, the icons are nice and the gnome panels are pretty. But, I simply can't stand having such a mouse and menu driven desktop experience. Perhaps I've been spoiled by #!. Yes, I could configure LMDE to use the same keyboard shortcuts and terminal applications that I'm used to. But, I've already got #! for that!

So, after this brief stint with LMDE, I restored my Statler image to my laptop and I'm home again. Statler, can you please forgive me for straying?

FiniteStateMachine

Part of the Machine

From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2009-06-29

Posts: 1,489

Re: Confessions of a cheater

I find I have the same experience after using openbox with many shortcuts or awesome. Using the mouse seems slow and unnecessary in most cases.
I find I can make my laptop just as 'pretty' as LMDE or mint etc, just through a really nice wallpaper.

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anonymous

The Mystery Member

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,419

Re: Confessions of a cheater

Once you go keyboard, you don't go back

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Unia

#! Octo-portal-pussy

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2010-07-17

Posts: 4,634

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Re: Confessions of a cheater

Don't make me think of switching back to Openbox guys..

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benhee

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From: North West UK.

Registered: 2009-10-28

Posts: 41

Re: Confessions of a cheater

Hi  Yikes,

You call that cheating...
I've reinstalled XP off an old recovery disc, literally dusted off, found at the bottom of a box in the loft space,
so I could feed into my old elonex box some very old VHS. After 3 months of trying with linux I gave up ( and nearly spent money, shudder, on domestic dvd recorder ), must take years of study and self denial to work out TV cards & tuners & tweek mencoder.

Now this XP malarkey,  while doing the job, sure is a culture shock! I've had to paint my spectacles black to feel at home.

Still got the tranquility of #! on lap top.

Mr Hee

Yikes

#! Member

Registered: 2009-01-03

Posts: 51

Re: Confessions of a cheater

@Unia, I can't knock you for your choice. Any Linux desktop environment is better than Windows or OSX. I absolutely love Openbox because of its simplicity and flexibility. XFCE, while good, just doesn't stack up IMHO.

To me, XFCE seems like a nice compromise between eye candy and flexibility, besides being pretty lean. While I may be tempted by the eye candy every now and then (looking at you, Gnome), I always seem to find my way back to OpenBox.

God bless FOSS!

jeffreyC

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2010-09-02

Posts: 596

Re: Confessions of a cheater

I don't know, but a properly stripped down Xfce is very much like a WM set-up

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mynis01

#! Die Hard

From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 2,005

Re: Confessions of a cheater

I've been thinking about trying one of those new debian/bsd packages and just not installing a gui. I'm still getting comfortable with irssi and playing music via command line. Does anyone have any recommendations  for packages that allow split screening and tabs and the like without starting X? I tried tmux and it was a bit hard to work with.

Last edited by mynis01 (2011-02-15 02:42:11)

allthosewhispers

Member

Registered: 2010-12-10

Posts: 26

Re: Confessions of a cheater

I like the stability of the UI and the entire environment. With GNOME going to 3.0 and the Shell, and gods-only-know what madness the KDE lads will put in any given number, knowing I have long-term consistency and stability with my system is pretty important to me. Which makes Openbox and XFCE winning bets.

anonymous

The Mystery Member

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,419

Re: Confessions of a cheater

^ Good thing you're not using Xfce on Arch Linux. Who knows how many threads have been made because of the new 4.8.

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olembe

#! Junkie

From: Salisbury, England

Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 263

Re: Confessions of a cheater

@benhee - I've had lots of success with TV tuners under Linux. Drop me a message if you want some advice, as I kept notes of how I did it all. The main thing is getting a tuner that works well with Linux. I used AverMedia tuners and found them to work well (AverMedia provide Linux drivers).

allthosewhispers

Member

Registered: 2010-12-10

Posts: 26

Re: Confessions of a cheater

@anonymous - thanks for the head's up! My desktop runs Arch, but uses openbox because it's mostly for storage. Definately glad I didn't go with XFCE there!

omns

#! wanderer

From: ~/

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,131

Re: Confessions of a cheater

Definately glad I didn't go with XFCE there!

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