Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

Post by pritambaral » Sun, Jul 03, 2016, 7:35 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 chx » Sun, Jul 03, 2016, 8:26 AM UTC

vesche wrote: post #113

chx wrote: post #76

At 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…

Somewhat unrelated, but you should check out pi hole https://pi-hole.net . Ads / spyware traffic won't even enter your network. I still run uBlock, but it goes largely unused.

Post by weitzj » Sun, Jul 03, 2016, 8:45 AM UTC

rl3 wrote: post #99

anderspitman wrote: post #69

For me, modern virtualization has gotten so good that it's my preferred solution. kvm, libvirt, virtio, and PCI passthrough et al have opened up a whole new world of possibilities. Currently still requires fairly specific hardware and kind of a pain to figure out how to make it work, but it's already very impressive. This is still really cool though.

Thing is you can't run Windows natively that way, it has to be a guest operating system. Then you need multiple videocards to pass through, and the guest operating systems require custom drivers at that. My preferred setup would be Windows native, with macOS (ha) and Linux guests running with GPU acceleration—preferably in a manner that doesn't necessitate multiple videocards. Too bad Apple is hellbent on locking mac…

Post by icebraining » Sun, Jul 03, 2016, 9:34 AM UTC

pritambaral wrote: post #132

DHowett wrote: post #122

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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.

They don't have special semantic meaning to CSS the spec. Quotes are needed[0] only if the value has whitespace in it. 0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/font-family#Va...

Post by omegaham » Sun, Jul 03, 2016, 9:52 AM UTC

apatters wrote: post #134

adambatkin wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> I would agree that for a long time OpenOffice had compatibility issues (often no worse than trying to open an Office document on a Mac) but those days are long gone. Downloaded a .docx template from Hubspot recently, LibreOffice could not even begin to open it correctly, the layout was screwed up all over the place. Using this template probably saved us 20 hours of work. So the only reasonable solution here was to…