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03 Jun 2009, 4:17 am

JohnnyCarcinogen wrote:
Win64, Gnome and Ubuntu - period.


You didn't have to renew a 2 year old thread lols

I don't use windows. Therefor no answer on win64 or win32 or wincrap.

I have debian lenny with gnome and kde 3.5. Both have an option to load up with openbox if I choose. I have a gnome menu in kde kicker menu thing and in gnome, i have a kde menu thingy under applications. That keeps my menus from getting all clogged up with apps that are for a different DE.

I have not slept for 24 hours and had a nice 9 hour drive earlier



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03 Jun 2009, 9:00 am

On the laptop, Mac OSX, Ubuntu 9.04 x64 with GNOME, and Fedora 10 x64 with GNOME. KDE is the bane of my existence and I refuse to use it full-time. I've tried it a couple times, and each time just reinforces my belief that KDE sucks.

On the desktop, Debian Lenny (32-bit powerpc) with options for XFCE, LXDE, IceWM, or OpenBox. I normally use LXDE.


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03 Jun 2009, 2:44 pm

GustavHolst wrote:
JohnnyCarcinogen wrote:
Win64, Gnome and Ubuntu - period.


You didn't have to renew a 2 year old thread lols

I don't use windows. Therefor no answer on win64 or win32 or wincrap.

I have debian lenny with gnome and kde 3.5. Both have an option to load up with openbox if I choose. I have a gnome menu in kde kicker menu thing and in gnome, i have a kde menu thingy under applications. That keeps my menus from getting all clogged up with apps that are for a different DE.

I have not slept for 24 hours and had a nice 9 hour drive earlier


I just started looking back at some old topics and didn't realize I was being a necro (let alone the fact that I didn't even know about forum etiquette regarding necroing).

I just got back into WP, so I guess that's why I started looking at old/dead topics. I just was informed that it was bad form to reinvigorate dead topics Embarassed

I had no idea. I was so embarrassed, because I try to pride myself on good and professional etiquette towards others. But it's hard sometimes.

Apologies to all.


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03 Jun 2009, 3:54 pm

Its refreshed by now!

Its not a huge social faux pas Johnny.

And its not like a dead political topic. its still relevant.


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03 Jun 2009, 4:58 pm

Vista and Ubuntu hands down. GNOME is so much better than KDE.


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05 Jun 2009, 3:30 am

You could always try a Windows 7 64-bit installation. Vista sucks.



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05 Jun 2009, 3:46 am

Orwell wrote:
On the laptop, Mac OSX, Ubuntu 9.04 x64 with GNOME, and Fedora 10 x64 with GNOME. KDE is the bane of my existence and I refuse to use it full-time. I've tried it a couple times, and each time just reinforces my belief that KDE sucks.

On the desktop, Debian Lenny (32-bit powerpc) with options for XFCE, LXDE, IceWM, or OpenBox. I normally use LXDE.

You can have gnome boot up with openbox, if you choose.

I like kde 3.5 because i can customize it more than gnome. I use gnome also sometimes. I go back and forth. I don't use xfce because it sucks, just like kde 4.2 sucks. I tried kde 4 a few times and i always wondered what the designers were thinking.



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05 Jun 2009, 12:26 pm

GustavHolst wrote:
You can have gnome boot up with openbox, if you choose.

My impression is that GNOME with openbox is still slower than, for example, lxde.

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I like kde 3.5 because i can customize it more than gnome. I use gnome also sometimes. I go back and forth. I don't use xfce because it sucks, just like kde 4.2 sucks. I tried kde 4 a few times and i always wondered what the designers were thinking.

To be fair, KDE4.2 at least sucks somewhat less than KDE4.1 did. Perhaps by about KDE4.5 they'll actually have made something usable. XFCE isn't horrible, but to me it seems too heavy to be part of a minimalist system on crappy hardware and not feature-complete enough to really make a full desktop on good hardware. I got into the game after KDE3.5 was already on its way out, so I don't know if that's any better. I just know that every iteration of KDE that I've seen has been junk.


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05 Jun 2009, 2:21 pm

Fuzzy wrote:
Its refreshed by now!

Its not a huge social faux pas Johnny.

And its not like a dead political topic. its still relevant.


Thanks Fuzzy. That makes me feel a little better 8)


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