Right - all the other "bastions" that are supposedly debunked and used everyday, over and over, and often together at the expense of logical coherence.
"But the earth isnt warming! Human's arent causing the warming! The warming is good for us, and CO2 is plant food! The earth isnt warming!"
FWIW, Handbrake runs on Linux and rsnapshot gives you wonderful time machine style backups too, in an automated fashion (though it doesnt have the fancy interface).
What you are describing is "focus follows mouse"/"sloppy focus" and it should be evident from my post, that both the styles exist in Gnome 3, and ARE decoupled from the auto_raise setting. In fact, its easier to set up, than what I initially described (which was already trivial).
Install gnome-tweak-tool - select "sloppy focus" (focus stays with last window pointer was over) or "mouse focus" instead of "click". Viola. In other words, do what I said in my last post, just don't bother changing auto_raise to true.
Gnome 3 has most of the features that people complain about most - Gnome's philosophy is less about removing features, and more about choosing which to present and hide to non-power users. Power users find them anyway, and tweak to their hearts content.
Next to impossible to set focus follows mouse and auto_raise? You're criticism there is without merit. You can change the focus settings in gnome-tweak-tool easily. You can change the auto_raise variable with a quick gconftool-2 command:
That's so entirely possible and so insanely far from 'next-to-impossible', I just changed auto_raise to true to test it, and reversed it back (because it is an abomination) in under 30 seconds.
Don't like alt-esc? Make it alt-tab then (even though, I would bet in nearly every quantitative way, the alt-tab/alt-~ system makes workflows faster). But different strokes... System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts - change the binding to your hearts content. Not hard people. Bitching about non-problems is stupid!
You do know you can change the alt-tab settings to work with windows - not apps - straight from the stock keyboard shortcuts panel in all of about 2 seconds, right?
Typing commands or using keyboard shortcuts or just in general maneuvering around like a power user are not things that are mutually exclusive with fancy GUI's and big buttons. Most desktops - gnome 3, osx, etc provide ample capability for both. Can't speak for unity, never tried it..
I think its an exciting time for desktop computer interfaces... its a good thing the desktop is branching out, and becoming something new.
Not sure that takes care of all your requirements, but it gets you at least somewhat there.
Fedora packages a lot of extensions for gnome-shell - I expect that the number and quality of them will only get better and better.
Alt-tab works beautifully. Alt-~ switches between open windows of the same app. Its quite lovely. And there's two more way to start another terminal (or another window of any app) that others haven't mentioned:
1) Drag the terminal icon to the desktop you want to launch it on
2) Invoke activities screen, begin typing "terminal", then while terminal is highlighted.. brilliantly easy.
XFCE is alright, but I think Gnome 3 is much better. Linus' rants against gnome 3 were rather childish and more than that - just plain idiotic. The inverter of the Linux kernel can't be bothered to learn enough about the desktop enough to discover that his big gripe could be solved with a ctrl-click or the dragging of a icon? That knowledge wasn't buried in the basement of some abandoned building with a sign saying "Beware of Leopard" posted on the door - any cursory, superficial glance at some Gnome 3 docs will yield the information before it was even a question in his mind.
I tried to be an ex-emacs user...
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Unfortunately, I think the support for YEC (young earth creationism) (and species of it) is far wider than you presume (at least in the US). And the outright rejection of the theory of evolution for theological reasons has even wider support still. IIRC, something like 55% of the US population reject evolution, and something like 40% believe in some variant of YEC.
I was surprised to learn this, being raised Catholic.. and Catholics don't necessarily have any theological problem with evolution or old earth theories, per se (though many do). But Catholics are a minority in the US, despite being the largest denomination worldwide. Protestants make up the majority, and support for literal/historical interpretations of Genesis have much more support in the Protestant world.
If he wants to run it bare metal, he can do that on a Mac laptop too - he can dual boot, or do linux all on its own. Mac laptops generally make great Linux machines.
The other option is to run Linux ON a Mac laptop. Most Mac's work pretty well with Linux. Sometimes newer models have some issues, but they usually get ironed out pretty fast, because there's lots of demand for them too.
While OSX is technically UNIX, it is much easier to do many Unixy things on Linux or traditional BSD's.
PSGI is like Python's WSGI or Ruby's rack, and is what Mojolicious supports. It abstracts your web app from your web server... so any web server supporting PSGI will support Mojolicious - so you don't have to use a perl webserver. PSGI is supported by most webservers, like Apache.
mod_perl is out - no reason to use it any more, especially since its tied explicitly to Apache. Yuk. Who wants to write a web app that requires a specific web server?
Mojo runs on PSGI, like most new generation web frameworks for perl. Its similar to WSGI (Python).
There's some really cool stuff happening in the PSGI world. Check out Plack.
... as long as each offers competing explanations for same phenomena (like the origins of life, the cosmos, the nature of the mind, psychology, etc).
And the issue is really about that simple.
Minecraft is essentially digital Legos with zombies.
People build crazy amazing things in minecraft for the very same reason you can find people building Lego car assembly plants out of Legos... really no good reason at all except for the "fun" of doing it.
Not really my idea of great fun, but well... to each his own.
... a social networking requirement? It never has been before.
When the heck did this expectation creep into peoples brains that any new social network must be the ultimate vehicle for social justice for all the oppressed people of the world, or be the or the ultimate tool for self-important, angsty, psuedonyming blowhards who want to spout off their crazy philosophies and conspiracy theories without having to use their real names to do it (because obviously the powers that be want to shut them up!)? Really?
I like to use social networks to communicate and socialize with people. I'm sorry for all the oppression in the world, but hey - G+, Facebook, et al. maybe arent your best tools to fight it, though I'm sure they will, in some instances, be helpful.
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Right - all the other "bastions" that are supposedly debunked and used everyday, over and over, and often together at the expense of logical coherence.
"But the earth isnt warming! Human's arent causing the warming! The warming is good for us, and CO2 is plant food! The earth isnt warming!"
Not to mention.... why are slashdot commenters complaining about the command line? Are we serious here? What the hell?
FWIW, Handbrake runs on Linux and rsnapshot gives you wonderful time machine style backups too, in an automated fashion (though it doesnt have the fancy interface).
What you are describing is "focus follows mouse"/"sloppy focus" and it should be evident from my post, that both the styles exist in Gnome 3, and ARE decoupled from the auto_raise setting. In fact, its easier to set up, than what I initially described (which was already trivial).
Install gnome-tweak-tool - select "sloppy focus" (focus stays with last window pointer was over) or "mouse focus" instead of "click". Viola. In other words, do what I said in my last post, just don't bother changing auto_raise to true.
Gnome 3 has most of the features that people complain about most - Gnome's philosophy is less about removing features, and more about choosing which to present and hide to non-power users. Power users find them anyway, and tweak to their hearts content.
Next to impossible to set focus follows mouse and auto_raise? You're criticism there is without merit. You can change the focus settings in gnome-tweak-tool easily. You can change the auto_raise variable with a quick gconftool-2 command:
/apps/metacity/general/auto_raise true
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set
That's so entirely possible and so insanely far from 'next-to-impossible', I just changed auto_raise to true to test it, and reversed it back (because it is an abomination) in under 30 seconds.
You could have said the same thing about installing linux on a personal PC, years ago - hell, you can still say it today.
Perhaps the person wants to learn linux, or experiment with it in a new space. That's a perfectly reasonable way for a geek to spend his time.
Have you tried pressing Alt-Esc?
Don't like alt-esc? Make it alt-tab then (even though, I would bet in nearly every quantitative way, the alt-tab/alt-~ system makes workflows faster). But different strokes... System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts - change the binding to your hearts content. Not hard people. Bitching about non-problems is stupid!
You do know you can change the alt-tab settings to work with windows - not apps - straight from the stock keyboard shortcuts panel in all of about 2 seconds, right?
Typing commands or using keyboard shortcuts or just in general maneuvering around like a power user are not things that are mutually exclusive with fancy GUI's and big buttons. Most desktops - gnome 3, osx, etc provide ample capability for both. Can't speak for unity, never tried it..
I think its an exciting time for desktop computer interfaces... its a good thing the desktop is branching out, and becoming something new.
Try a distro that tracks with RHEL, like CentOS or Scientific Linux? Or there's always vanilla debian.
sudo yum install gnome-shell-extension-cpu-temperature
Not sure that takes care of all your requirements, but it gets you at least somewhat there.
Fedora packages a lot of extensions for gnome-shell - I expect that the number and quality of them will only get better and better.
sudo yum groupinstall XFCE
sudo yum groupinstall LXDE
Or just use Gnome 3 - I've never heard so much irrational complaining over what is a pretty solid (and very customizable) desktop etc....
* ctrl-enter (in activities)
* right-click -> new window (in activities)
* ctrl-n (from terminal)
C'mon people... learn to use the thing before you knock it.
Alt-tab works beautifully. Alt-~ switches between open windows of the same app. Its quite lovely. And there's two more way to start another terminal (or another window of any app) that others haven't mentioned:
1) Drag the terminal icon to the desktop you want to launch it on 2) Invoke activities screen, begin typing "terminal", then while terminal is highlighted.. brilliantly easy.
XFCE is alright, but I think Gnome 3 is much better. Linus' rants against gnome 3 were rather childish and more than that - just plain idiotic. The inverter of the Linux kernel can't be bothered to learn enough about the desktop enough to discover that his big gripe could be solved with a ctrl-click or the dragging of a icon? That knowledge wasn't buried in the basement of some abandoned building with a sign saying "Beware of Leopard" posted on the door - any cursory, superficial glance at some Gnome 3 docs will yield the information before it was even a question in his mind.
... but it didn't work.
Emacs controls all its ex's.
Unfortunately, I think the support for YEC (young earth creationism) (and species of it) is far wider than you presume (at least in the US). And the outright rejection of the theory of evolution for theological reasons has even wider support still. IIRC, something like 55% of the US population reject evolution, and something like 40% believe in some variant of YEC.
I was surprised to learn this, being raised Catholic.. and Catholics don't necessarily have any theological problem with evolution or old earth theories, per se (though many do). But Catholics are a minority in the US, despite being the largest denomination worldwide. Protestants make up the majority, and support for literal/historical interpretations of Genesis have much more support in the Protestant world.
Or buy a Mac (or use existing Mac), download Linux and dual boot and/or wipe out OSX completely!
If he wants to run it bare metal, he can do that on a Mac laptop too - he can dual boot, or do linux all on its own. Mac laptops generally make great Linux machines.
The other option is to run Linux ON a Mac laptop. Most Mac's work pretty well with Linux. Sometimes newer models have some issues, but they usually get ironed out pretty fast, because there's lots of demand for them too.
While OSX is technically UNIX, it is much easier to do many Unixy things on Linux or traditional BSD's.
PSGI is like Python's WSGI or Ruby's rack, and is what Mojolicious supports. It abstracts your web app from your web server... so any web server supporting PSGI will support Mojolicious - so you don't have to use a perl webserver. PSGI is supported by most webservers, like Apache.
mod_perl is out - no reason to use it any more, especially since its tied explicitly to Apache. Yuk. Who wants to write a web app that requires a specific web server?
Mojo runs on PSGI, like most new generation web frameworks for perl. Its similar to WSGI (Python).
There's some really cool stuff happening in the PSGI world. Check out Plack.
... as long as each offers competing explanations for same phenomena (like the origins of life, the cosmos, the nature of the mind, psychology, etc). And the issue is really about that simple.
Minecraft is essentially digital Legos with zombies. People build crazy amazing things in minecraft for the very same reason you can find people building Lego car assembly plants out of Legos... really no good reason at all except for the "fun" of doing it. Not really my idea of great fun, but well... to each his own.
... a social networking requirement? It never has been before.
When the heck did this expectation creep into peoples brains that any new social network must be the ultimate vehicle for social justice for all the oppressed people of the world, or be the or the ultimate tool for self-important, angsty, psuedonyming blowhards who want to spout off their crazy philosophies and conspiracy theories without having to use their real names to do it (because obviously the powers that be want to shut them up!)? Really?
I like to use social networks to communicate and socialize with people. I'm sorry for all the oppression in the world, but hey - G+, Facebook, et al. maybe arent your best tools to fight it, though I'm sure they will, in some instances, be helpful.
This is all just... a little silly.