I work on Windows. I can say that Thunderbird is far better that Outlook.
Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
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Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#42Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#43what about the normal ppl who use linux and dont know all these i3 shit
I've met some of those people who use linux despite being normal. They complain constantly about Ubuntu's desktop user interface changing. I remind them gently that in linux-land all that crap is optional, but you have to give up on any claim to normalcy... and probably your disk auto-mounter... and any apps that blow up when they aren't able to choose their own size.
Try KDE. Not sane defaults, but you can change at your pleasure.
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#44Another 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).
Assuming you're an employee, this is a feature. Your old employer probably doesn't want you taking your email with you, and rightly so - and your new employer very likely doesn't want you bringing your old email with you, for exactly the same reason. So... there you go. What's the problem?
I suggest embracing this rather than worrying about it.
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#45It's disappointing that i3 is constrained to one window. The ability to replace Microsoft's window manager with i3 and allow linux and windows apps to be nicely tiled together would be amazing.
X was never designed to work like that. I personally run Visual Studio Code (with a patched X lib to allow Electron to start without graphics acceleration) with the "local window manager" (i.e., Windows itself). Works great.
Okay I'll bite. Why are you running Linux vs∆ code in widnLaASaAAqaa@@@@£
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#46Gentoo called it eleven years ago. http://www.gentooexperimental.org/nt/
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#47what about the normal ppl who use linux and dont know all these i3 shit
I've met some of those people who use linux despite being normal. They complain constantly about Ubuntu's desktop user interface changing. I remind them gently that in linux-land all that crap is optional, but you have to give up on any claim to normalcy... and probably your disk auto-mounter... and any apps that blow up when they aren't able to choose their own size.
Switch them to lubuntu. It is as close to Windows 98 as you can get. I mean it in a good way. It is my standard Linux distribution. All the Ubuntu packages but a simple UI.
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#48Am ... 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…
Except that graphics drivers on OSX are slower than their Windows or Linux counterparts.
There is a lot of problem with Windows, GPU driver quality is not one of them.
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#49I'm one of those weird people that uses free software even if it isn't better. The quality of the software is beside the point.
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#50Another 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.
The issue is, that Outlook sends crappy emails in the default setting. And since nobody changes those everybody is sending crappy emails. Also, we are talking about email. Maybe it is good for an address book, calendar, tasks, etc. pp. But as an email client it is awful, also because it is as complicated as mutt but actually less powerful.
My biggest complained about Outlook is actually a bug in their HTML engine. From Outlook 14:
> font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
What's the issue here? Simple, if Calibri isn't there, my browser looks for a font called "sans-serif" and doesn't use the default sans-serif font, the result the email is presented in a serif font. Correctly, it should look like this:
> font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
I know this is nit-picking but for me it is annoying.