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« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2006 05:12 am CST »
Who is neil?  :P
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« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2006 07:41 am CST »
hmm... Ubuntu... hmm...

I'm an elitist and run nothing but tell everyone to install KDE.
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« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2006 12:09 pm CST »
What I'm sick of is people assuming all linux users are elitests who want to smite Microsoft, and that is their only reason for using linux at all.

While I am sure that is true of some users, I know it doesn't classify them all.  Considering that I use it when I feel like using it as well, I know this for a fact.  I still use (a rare, rare, legal copy of) Windows XP Pro most of the time.  However, there's a lot of positives to using a linux system, too.  Given some time, Gnome could bring itself to XP's level of user friendliness.  It would need some serious (and by default) configuration overhauls, a set of system configuration tools that are more comprehensive, and more unification of overall look.  Those are my main gripes.  QT widgets pretty much flip the digital finger to GTK themes.  All of the default apps need to use one drawing technology, which pretty much means GTK.  They're working on the unification thing.  No idea what they're doing about the others.
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« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2006 12:29 pm CST »
windows: A 32-bit extension to a 16-bit patch of an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition
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« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2006 02:17 pm CST »
dont forget the 64bit edition.
and what does GTK and QT stand for?
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« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2006 06:20 pm CST »
GTK is a graphics toolkit.  Used for themes and stuff.  Making windows and all that stuff.

After using gnome for around a month and a half now, I guess, I have found its interface and structure to be more pleasing and user friendly than Windows XP.   Recently I was in another guy's dorm, helping him install a graphics card (on a dell system that has integrated graphics = pain in the ass to get working as it should) and simultaneously helping another guy installing JRE to get ourtunes working.

You would not believe the frustration I went through when going from my peaceful linux environment into the chaotic world of windows.  Windows basicly did not give a care about the new graphics card, nvidia drivers crashed during installation, so I had to go with omegas.  Disabling the onboard graphics in the bios as well as in device manager didnt work.  And on the other PC, any form of the java runtime environment installation would crash.

In other news, both attempts failed.  I gave up.
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« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2006 06:43 pm CST »
Don't pretend that driver installation under Linux goes smoothly either.  It's much more of a pain in the ass.
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« Reply #22 on: February 20, 2006 12:37 am CST »
Quote from: "Darwin"
GTK is a graphics toolkit.  Used for themes and stuff.  Making windows and all that stuff.

After using gnome for around a month and a half now, I guess, I have found its interface and structure to be more pleasing and user friendly than Windows XP.   Recently I was in another guy's dorm, helping him install a graphics card (on a dell system that has integrated graphics = pain in the ass to get working as it should) and simultaneously helping another guy installing JRE to get ourtunes working.

You would not believe the frustration I went through when going from my peaceful linux environment into the chaotic world of windows.  Windows basicly did not give a care about the new graphics card, nvidia drivers crashed during installation, so I had to go with omegas.  Disabling the onboard graphics in the bios as well as in device manager didnt work.  And on the other PC, any form of the java runtime environment installation would crash.

In other news, both attempts failed.  I gave up.


Sounds like some one just doesn't know what they're doing.
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http://www.humboldt.edu/~ld7/ is my HSU webpage... it has links to some cleanup tools you should probably run before you try to do those things again.


Oh yeah.. and driver installation/Java installation = way more simple on a properly functioning windows XP box than any linux box I have seen.  That doesn't mean it's better, but it certainly doesn't mean it's a pain compared to Linux.

Peace.
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