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Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Post by merb »

jkahn wrote: post #28
616c wrote: post #17

Another thought: when people complain about the state of Linux email clients, what is so good about the Windows alternatives? Office productivity suites, I get it. But email clients all suck. Mutt's mantra is so true, at least they're honest about sucking less. I believe Linux is a 100% of the time platform because the choice (again, user choice) to run minimal terminal apps means like less than average 50% memory ut…

Don't write off Outlook without a second thought. It's big with loads of features, yes - but that's what's good about it. If all you need to do is plain text email, sure, Mutt is fine. If you deal with a large amount of email, calendar appointments, tasks, contacts, etc, in a professional role, nothing beats Outlook. There's a reason it's so popular.

unfortunatly Outlook 2013-2016 is pretty akward (resources) but I like Outlook 2010. Still I don't use it

Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Post by rmsaksida »

wildster wrote: post #10
smcl wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who have, Lenovo?

I have an Lenovo Thinkpad x220 running Ubuntu that I needed to set the BIOS to Legacy.

I had a x220 and it worked fine with Ubuntu in EFI-only mode. Same for my current x230. Probably boots 1 or 2 seconds faster because of that. But I never managed to get it working by doing the partitioning work myself (which I prefer because I don't like having everything in a huge partition), you have to format the whole drive and let Ubuntu do its thing.

Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Post by douche »

jkahn wrote: post #28
616c wrote: post #17

Another thought: when people complain about the state of Linux email clients, what is so good about the Windows alternatives? Office productivity suites, I get it. But email clients all suck. Mutt's mantra is so true, at least they're honest about sucking less. I believe Linux is a 100% of the time platform because the choice (again, user choice) to run minimal terminal apps means like less than average 50% memory ut…

Don't write off Outlook without a second thought. It's big with loads of features, yes - but that's what's good about it. If all you need to do is plain text email, sure, Mutt is fine. If you deal with a large amount of email, calendar appointments, tasks, contacts, etc, in a professional role, nothing beats Outlook. There's a reason it's so popular.

I've never had an installation of Outlook that stayed stable and usable for more than about six months. It doesn't help that you have other parts of Office that stick their grubby fingers in your address books, calendars, and mail files and do their best to scramble things up.

Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Post by devonkim »

616c wrote: post #17

Another thought: when people complain about the state of Linux email clients, what is so good about the Windows alternatives? Office productivity suites, I get it. But email clients all suck. Mutt's mantra is so true, at least they're honest about sucking less. I believe Linux is a 100% of the time platform because the choice (again, user choice) to run minimal terminal apps means like less than average 50% memory ut…

I view Outlook as the Emacs of e-mail. But the unfortunate part of Outlook in my experience is that between jobs my Outlook configuration is completely non-portable by design it appears (I have to reconfigure each time I switched to another company).

Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Post by lj3 »

616c wrote: post #11

Am ... am I falling in love with Windows? Well, time to see if I can get StumpWM running on it, for more hipster cred. (Partly joking, partly serious.)

> Am ... am I falling in love with Windows?

Spend some time with it again. You'll learn to hate it just as much as you did the first time around. For me, it's because of a single factor: BSOD caused by shitty geforce drivers. I used to think the linux geforce drivers were shit because it was a neglected platform. Now I know the truth: windows geforce drivers are full of pain and tears as well. I don't see any of the same issues on OS X.

Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Post by oblio »

douche wrote: post #34
jkahn wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't write off Outlook without a second thought. It's big with loads of features, yes - but that's what's good about it. If all you need to do is plain text email, sure, Mutt is fine. If you deal with a large amount of email, calendar appointments, tasks, contacts, etc, in a professional role, nothing beats Outlook. There's a reason it's so popular.

I've never had an installation of Outlook that stayed stable and usable for more than about six months. It doesn't help that you have other parts of Office that stick their grubby fingers in your address books, calendars, and mail files and do their best to scramble things up.

I don't know what you're doing with it, but I've used Outlook for 2 multinational companies for 4+ years each, had several GB of mails for each (probably hundreds of thousands of email per account, most of them automated), and the worst parts of it were a bug with password resets (it keps asking for my password for about a week after quarterly resets) and the slowness of filter sync with Exchange.

As you can see, those were nuisances. Otherwise, it was pretty much rock solid.

Several versions, ran them under XP and Windows 7.

Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Post by [deleted] »

douche wrote: post #34
jkahn wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't write off Outlook without a second thought. It's big with loads of features, yes - but that's what's good about it. If all you need to do is plain text email, sure, Mutt is fine. If you deal with a large amount of email, calendar appointments, tasks, contacts, etc, in a professional role, nothing beats Outlook. There's a reason it's so popular.

I've never had an installation of Outlook that stayed stable and usable for more than about six months. It doesn't help that you have other parts of Office that stick their grubby fingers in your address books, calendars, and mail files and do their best to scramble things up.

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