Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

Post by MajesticHobo » Sun, Jul 03, 2016, 5:38 AM UTC

hartator wrote: post #119

adambatkin wrote: post #104

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You missed the rest of the paragraph though: "If you’ve used them, you know that they’re not as nice as the applications available in macOS and Windows." I used Thunderbird for about 10 years on my Mac laptop and every time I tried to switch to Apple Mail (or anything else) I quickly switched back. But the truth is, I have used Linux on my primary desktop PC for about 15 years now and can honestly say that it is a ve…

Haven't Mozilla gave up on Thunderbird though?

Post by T-A » Sun, Jul 03, 2016, 6:06 AM UTC

marmaduke wrote: post #23

There is a tiling window manager for windows using auto hot key, so entirely native and works on previous versions of Windows too. I seem to have forgotten the name but it worked well when I tried it.

Post by znpy » Sun, Jul 03, 2016, 6:46 AM UTC

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…

Post by anderspitman » Sun, Jul 03, 2016, 7:01 AM UTC

pierrec wrote: post #112

rl3 wrote: post #110

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I'd prefer Windows as a guest OS too, but not at the expense of losing native performance. Granted, Windows makes for a fairly terrible host operating system when you have to reboot it frequently on account of updates.

Yeah, I'm writing this without having first-hand experience regarding the current performance of Windows 10 as a guest. Apparently VMWare has good support for it, but searching for reviews on the actual performance only turns up a bunch of confusing, outdated rants. I'll just have to try it myself when I get the chance.

Post by icebraining » Sun, Jul 03, 2016, 7:16 AM UTC

DHowett wrote: post #122

asimuvPR wrote: post #59

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This is baffling. How could something as important as font rendering not be fixed?

Equally baffling is that quotes, which should simply demarcate regions within which special characters are ignored, have special semantic meaning to a CSS parser. That narrative, however, isn't one for which we can blame Microsoft.