I'm on Windows and I use Thunderbird. What's the alternative?
Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
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Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#72This is tangential but my primary interest is being able to natively ssh into a Windows machine. I know options exist today but I would love to see native support and it's oh-so-close. Would be great to be able to finally script things to copy stuff over to the Windows box such as LE certs.
It's getting there: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now, it ain't tiling, but I once worked (not as the first guy, but took it over as a major project and the hell out of it) was one of the ports of Opebox-ish Windows managers (to be more accurate, really an Explorer replacement shell, not a Windows manager traditionally) to Windows XP to build very stripped down Windows kiosk machines with minimal UI and a lot of control, custom UI, and cool fun features. http://www.…
Hey, HackWM author here, this might be a better link https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM :) Unfortunately it has been largely unmaintained by myself since the initial release, I occasionally pick it up for a day or two but I'm not using it actively anymore. Just happy that some people find a use for it!
Yeah I clearly saw it a long time ago.
As I said, stumbled upon your blog because of Chicken Lisp musings (dare I say chicken scratch)? Thanks for that, all very interesting.
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#74Another 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.
Well, that's your opinion. Support that garbage like I do at work, and your opinion will change.
Again, popular does not mean good to me. That is the point. I have seen Outlook peg processors and waste disk IO with all those features.
I hate cloud services, but they keep such things minimal and some of us pray for mandates of no-fat client email, even to spite myself, because of Outlook and Thunderbird users.
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#75Well it's finally the year of the Linux Desktop.
Actually, I feel like this is the one instance where saying "GNU" instead of Linux is completely accurate, since WSL is not even running the Linux kernel but GNU userland tools... I wonder what Stallman would have to say about that? We've come around full circle to GNU/NT.
Richard calls it "GNU/kWindows" (like GNU/kFreeBSD); I wrote an article with his input a while back:
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#76At first I was excited by bash for Windows but I am still not switching. You know why? Malware. Ransomware. I have many layers of defense from various harm (OpenWRT router, uBlock being the two most important ones) but the biggest defense I have is that Windows programs simply do not run on Linux and the Linux market is not big enough to bother with.
And I know many of you will say, oh that's not a problem, it never happened to me -- I will say good for you. But I need my work computer to, well, work, constantly. Yes, fighting a broken Arch Linux after an update is bad but not as bad as fighting a downright malicious program.
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#77Serious question, what's wrong with Thunderbird? I've used Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Outlook up to 2016, Mail, Gmail, Squirrel etc etc. I use Outlook where I _have_ to, but TB is a constant across all my systems. IMAP support is great, search is fast, I rely on Google to filter spam. Thunderbird is one of those apps that doesn't need extra work or new features, it just works.
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#78Earlier 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 get around 400 mails per day and over several years Outlook has not failed. Exchange environment.
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#79A lot of comments about Thunderbird here, despite the article saying "Save your apologist comments and what about Open Office/Geary/Thunderbird comments.". That means don't comment about it.
The interesting part of the article is not the part about why this guy uses Windows!
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, I feel like this is the one instance where saying "GNU" instead of Linux is completely accurate, since WSL is not even running the Linux kernel but GNU userland tools... I wonder what Stallman would have to say about that? We've come around full circle to GNU/NT.
Richard calls it "GNU/kWindows" (like GNU/kFreeBSD); I wrote an article with his input a while back: https://mikegerwitz.com/2016/04/GNU-kWindows
I think Gnudows is a pretty catchy portmanteau.