Impromptu drunken posting night!!!

[featherynscale]

Notes from an install:

Windows XP is still evil. I attempted an upgrade and basically just blew up my entire system, oh yes, children.

I has Linux now. Also, vodka.

Nothing can stop me now. Bwa. Ha ha.

Comments

Re: I need a Penguin Icon, I could have used it for hockey too...

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of debate in the Linux community on the topic of "Gnome vs. KDE". Any more I'm very "six of one" about it. :)

Re: I need a Penguin Icon, I could have used it for hockey too...

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I like the new Gnome a lot better than the last time I installed Linux (which was around 2001-2003, and Mandrake..7?). But I was a big KDE fan then, and enough things translated well that I didn't see the need for a whole new learning curve.

Re: I need a Penguin Icon, I could have used it for hockey too...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It looks like I can make KDE do all the things that I so-briefly liked about Gnome, too, so it's probably no big deal.

I'm a bit mystified about the multiple desktops thing, though. What's the point of that?

Re: I need a Penguin Icon, I could have used it for hockey too...

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I use it for workflow, when I use it at all. Graphics programs go in one window, Coding/calculations in another, games on a third. Saves time on Alt-Tabbing when you're working with a million windows, for one thing..

That seems to be what the Compiz thing that Lex keeps going on about. He might be able to shed more light on it...

Re: I need a Penguin Icon, I could have used it for hockey too...

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Oh, THAT sort of multiple desktops.... oops.

I put my browser on one desktop, my mail on another, my command line and editor on another, and (sometimes) a file-management window on a fourth. Cuts down on the clutter on my screen at any one time. (Multiple monitors helps even more!)


Compiz basically gives you 3D window/desktop effects sorta like Vista. I'm pretty sure YouTube and Google Video have a bunch of demos online.

Multiple desktops

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

The point is that the system was designed as interchangable pieces from the ground up, with a 30+ year lineage of incremental changes and swapping out pieces for different ones. You have different groups of people working on different pieces, and often different groups of people work on similar functionality in different ways. Usually this ends up with one solution dominating the others (though the others rarely disappear entirely), but Gnome vs KDE is a case where two solutions fairly evenly dominate the others.

KDE predates Gnome by about a year; Gnome started because of some copyright licensing difficulties in KDE, resolved long ago but long after Gnome had become established. However, KDE itself was intended as a successor to a whole set of much simpler desktop environments (e.g. Motif, twm, fvwm). If the system hadn't been designed to allow choosing the desktop environment, it wouldn't have been able to evolve into what we have now.

Re: Multiple desktops

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, sorry. I wasn't asking "Why is there Gnome and KDE?", I was asking, "Why, in KDE, do you have four desktops? What is the advantage to that?".