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  1. Re:I love Vista! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness"

    Why is every version of Linux I've seen competing for the most ugly GUI prize? They are? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course, but I think for example these look quite good, and when you combine them with the eyecandy effects of compiz, I bet liquid sugar starts to pour out of your eyes.
  2. About Time... by Hosiah · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Stopping Linux Desktop Adoption Sabotage
    We're finally going to acknowledge it in public, huh? (-:

    But, I'm tired of being treated like I don't exist: Linux "made it" on my desktop years ago, has run for all of our family's needs (internet, chat, email, games, graphics design, programming, and YES office document use too!), will continue to "make it" on our desktops forever. And we're ALL sick of being discussed as if we were unicorns: "Do home Linux desktop users exist? No, that's just a fairy-tale. It's physically impossible to run Linux on a desktop, because it's just a teletype terminal you have to write the kernel from scratch every time you start it and it doesn't even use a monitor and mouse, it uses punched cards instead." This is all bandied about like it was common knowledge, taught at our universities, discussed with great seriousness in the tech publications, and carried as a confirmed opinion amongst many of my fellow Slashdotters, even.

    If you can bear to have your whole reality re-defined, click here: http://www.lynucs.org/ . Behold: Linux desktops! Running on monitors! Note the "taskbar" on the bottom, JustLikeWindows. See the applications open on the desktop, they have a bar at the top with the little "x" thingie to close them and the little box thingie to full-screen them and they use jpg images for wallpaper, JustLikeWindows. Note the scrollbars on the sides of the windows, JustLikeWindows. Note the little icons that you click with the mouse to launch a program or open a file, JustLikeWindows.

    Do you suppose, if they spend all this time making all this software...dozens of different window managers and hundreds of distros...that maybe, somewhere, just maybe, somebody could actually use them for anything, at all, at all?

    So, the real story is, "Linux struggles daily against Microsoft to survive - and even thrive! - but we'd all be better off if there was less fighting in the world.", not "Linux has been killed by Microsoft. Alas, poor Tux, I knew him...almost." Get it right! Discuss us like we're dead, and we're likely to rise up and prove how alive we are!

  3. Re:Reasons for using KDE/Gnome on OS X w/Finder by delire · · Score: 1 · on KDE Running on Mac OS X
    Don't even get me started on the Finder's utterly, utterly useless "alt-tab" - what a pointless piece of crap. You simply _CANNOT_ switch windows with it, only applications! Great, you can switch focus to the most recently used window in one app or the most recently used window in another, but there is NO FUCKING WAY you can change amongst those app's windows without using the mouse and going to the "window" menu or using "expose" (all involve several distracted seconds on that bastard touch-pad mouse thing).
    Well it's about time someone else said it. This alone makes OSX utterly frustrating to use. Apple really does have some nasty and bizarre assumptions about this thing called 'useability'. KDE is sensible out of the box but should it not suit you in any way you can massage it until the point it suits you. Now there's a useability idea.

    Were there a single proprietary application I would want to run, I might have had a reason to retain OSX on my PPC machine. And if there was about anything about the dock and or Aqua itself I miss, I'm sure I could easily simulate/improve upon it using something like this or this or this.
  4. Re:Less is not more? by delire · · Score: 1 · on Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs

    I keep hearing these bizarre generalisations on what constitutes the 'Linux user interface'. Above you say:
    ..And Linux has a terrible user interface..
    First off, Linux is not a 'thing', or a product. Some argue this is part of Linux's 'problem' (I call it an advantage). Not being a singular product, it doesn't have a singular user interface. Thankfully it provides a bunch of blocks from which you can build your own. Some people also think this is fun.

    Here is the 'Linux User Interface' of a person that switched from OSX to Linux, and obviously missed the look and feel of Aqua.

    Here is another Linux desktop. This Linux desktop is also popular with many users also.

    I'm curious, what is this Linux 'user interface' you talk about?
  5. Re:What are you smoking? by VStrider · · Score: 1 · on Desktop Linux on x86 - Adapt or Die

    People don't switch from Windows XP to Linux because of its slick looks

    They are not? Have you seen any linux desktops lately?

    No need to show me your desktop. I bet it's as original as the next windows desktop.

  6. Re:Seriously, you're right. by Morosoph · · Score: 1 · on Google's X Files Vanish

    I wonder why Apple haven't got onto KDE (screenshot)?

  7. Re:Clearlooks == Everclear by Sweetshark · · Score: 1 · on Gnome 2.10 Released

    How hard would it be to take the perfectly good XP desktop and implement it for the benefit of us new Linux powerusers?
    Here you go, troll.
    By the way, you should really replace the "perfectly good" in your sentence with "good enough" or "WORKSFORME".

  8. Re:Truth: The State of Desktop Linux by Mornelithe · · Score: 1 · on GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 Screenshot Demo

    Does this look all right to you?

    Link

    I assure you, it's plenty easy to use.

    Then again, I doubt that the person in the original screenshot had trouble using his system. The only specific thing I'd find problematic with that particular desktop is that he has way too many windows open on that one desktop (assuming he restored all those iconified windows), but they're probably on separate desktops normally.

    Even I put more windows in a screenshot than I usually have on a desktop, because otherwise it's almost like posting a picture of my wallpaper.

  9. Re:Truth: The State of Desktop Linux by ScytheBlade1 · · Score: 3, Interesting · on GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 Screenshot Demo

    Oh really?

    Besides, I thought that personal tastes are just that. Personal.

  10. Re:What is that? by SnoBall · · Score: 0 · on FreeSBIE 1.1 Screenshot Tour

    The montior happens to be called Torsmo and it paints itself to the root window of X11, which is nice and nifty ( you can get it to ... blend in.)

    You can see more screenshots here

    ~SnoBall

  11. Re:Nice Screeny's - with HTML by pyros · · Score: 2, Interesting · on The Power of X
    screenshot 1.

    screenshot 2

  12. Re:unified desktop by dave420 · · Score: 1 · on The Power of X
    I'm not too au fait with linux desktops (I only ssh into my linux boxes at work, and I don't use it on the desktop partially due to the reasons I've described already). I looked at a couple of screenshots from this new release, and I saw some of the ol' familiar one-pixel-off features I've been talking about. You can see in that screenshot, the right-hand window border by the scrollbar on Thunderbird is not straight, and the text on the column headings isn't vertically aligned properly. Are those due to the theme, or the technology behind it?

    If linux had a tight GUI, I'd give it more thought. I'm really not trying to be elitist or trollerific here, but it's so distracting when these things crop up. (I'm also a web developer, so when things aren't pixel-perfect, my skin crawls)

  13. Remember XFree... by sla291 · · Score: 5, Interesting · on XFree86 4.4 Released

    XFree is dying, maybe.

    Most say that it sucks. I say it's not perfect but check this website : http://www.lynucs.org/

    and you'll see that X can really make your desktop very eye-candy. (well, perhaps you already knew ;)

    Don't blame XFree too much.. we're pretty all using it, even it may be the time to move on.