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Meh, after struggling with linux for years , I finally swallowed my pride and paid a hefty price for a Macbook Air. Best decision I ever made. OS X hasn't disappointed me yet. I don't have to worry about driver/sound problems or incompatible libraries every other week.
Meh, after struggling with linux for years , I finally swallowed my pride and paid a hefty price for a Macbook Air. Best decision I ever made. OS X hasn't disappointed me yet. I don't have to worry about driver/sound problems or incompatible libraries every other week.
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>Alt+Tab is completely broken This is kind of an opinion. There is no rule book that says it needs to behave a certain way. I prefer this. >ruining the very purpose of virtual desktops I use virtual desktops to separate windows in overview mode so when they're presented for picking they aren't really small. And also for organization. >Gnome's "workspaces" are not as powerful as traditional virtual desktops. The bigge…
> This is kind of an opinion. There is no rule book that says it needs to behave a certain way. I prefer this. In case you wanted more proof of this I think both of these are wrong and it should be by window not application. Thankfully MATE does this and is coincidentally available now in Ubuntu 14.04.
Will it save me time and headache, it involves in getting things fixed on cutting-edge Linux and getting them to work, if I switch to Kubuntu?
Well, that was fun. The upgrade crashed halfway through. I rebooted in recovery mode, finished the upgrade using the dpkg repair option, and then restarted a few times and found that it still wasn't working. Looked like a video problem, so I checked /etc/X11 and found the xorg.conf files had been backed up and not replaced. A comment in the last one inspired me to run nvidia-xconfig and it worked fine. Pretty typical…
What issues did you experience going from XP to 7? Did it happen to involve network drivers?
The main beef I have with upgrading Windows though is the time it takes to do so. A while ago I updated someones PC from XP to 7 and when it restarted after the upgrade it just ran like complete crap. Took at least 3 minutes for the desktop to come to a usable state after it had appeared to be fully loaded. This is an experience I find all to often on windows but almost never on Linux. After installing about 8 hours (yes 8 hours) of updates including quite a few .NET frameworks and restarting multiple times, the computer was finally in a state that I considered "acceptable". Started up fast and was responsive within a few seconds of the desktop loading. I was missing a lot of drivers, but I had the driver disc, they were pretty painless for the most part. The resolution still looked a little funky and I found out I had to install the nvidia driver from the website. Was a pretty decent experience after a pretty awful ordeal.
Well, that was fun. The upgrade crashed halfway through. I rebooted in recovery mode, finished the upgrade using the dpkg repair option, and then restarted a few times and found that it still wasn't working. Looked like a video problem, so I checked /etc/X11 and found the xorg.conf files had been backed up and not replaced. A comment in the last one inspired me to run nvidia-xconfig and it worked fine. Pretty typical…
how do you figure that?
The first comment I saw said it was impressive. The second said I should use Gnome instead of Unity. The third said I should try something called localepurge for a leaner install. The fourth said KDE was better than Gnome and Unity. The fifth recommended Xubuntu over Gnome. This is the sort of fragmentation that makes popular adoption difficult, but is also what makes Linux awesome.
Most HN readers are developers (who all have unique and specific tastes in their machine setup), and have enough experience with Linux to find it easy to install alternative window managers. For "popular adoption", I'm sure the completely standard Ubuntu install is just fine.
To me, that's not developing. It's just extra work that's completely orthagonal to building cool software.
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Giving it a try now, but I have to say the amount of space wasted by the header bar of each window really bothers me. Example: http://i.imgur.com/bKGyEo3.png
This is a great resource: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#Reduce_title_bar_... But the tweak tool lets you change the font size which was enough for me. I also installed htitle to firefox to hide the title bar when full screen.
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This is a great resource: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#Reduce_title_bar_... But the tweak tool lets you change the font size which was enough for me. I also installed htitle to firefox to hide the title bar when full screen.
Thank you! I will give it a go.