Unalienable right: Internet 28Apr08 | 0
..OR you could just get a data plan for your cell & stop the madness before children get abducted. (And yes, I do accomplish this with Ubuntu too!)
Year of the rat? 14Feb08 | 0
GNOME has been locking up nearly daily for me lately. And I’m not a fan of an unusable nautilus, gterm or gedit. I tried KDE4, but alas, it just plain sucks. We’ll see what 4.5 turns out for them. I tried E17, which wasn’t bad, but it lacked some basics. So today I give XFce a whirl. Again. It has been at least 6months since I last tried it, and last time required too much setup to get started. This time however (with all the packages installed), I had to crash out of GNOME and dump in, and when I did, was I ever surprised! Thunar is workable! An application menu already filled! Compiz options that MAKE SENSE! it’s amazing, and now my default wm. It feels light an responsive, not clunky and crashy like poor old GNOME This isn’t about features anymore, it’s about perception. I love gnome’s features. Fact is, the important ones stopped working consistently about 2 months after I installed it. Gnome-vfs? No lovin’. Nautilus crashing? Not my kind of wm. Just for kicks I installed an old BeOS theme and kicked on the ‘Focus follows mouse’ option. So great. XFce: I’ll get back to work now.