Splashtop, Linux For Windows

[devilock76]

My mom, who's 75 and never used Windows, uses LXDE on Debian. I think it is easier for newbies, due to it's simplicity (not that mom's a newbie any more). I don't use icons on the desktop, so I roll my own LXDE with openbox, fbpanel and pcmanfm. Although, the menu is most important to me. I MUST be able to customize the menu and configure a left-handed desktop. If I can't customize the menu and have a left-handed setup, it really pisses me off.

I setup LXDE to use the openbox menu, as far as clicking on the desktop. I find it a good combo. Yeah I like your approach as well. But I do have my lazy moments where something like LXDE cans it all so why not. HEHEHEHEHE.

Ken

[badlands]

I trust FreeBSD more than anything else on production boxes.

[devilock76]

I trust FreeBSD more than anything else on production boxes.

CentOS is pretty rock solid too. But free BSD in my experience performs better and has a wider and newer available tool set than CentOS.

Ken

[Crow]

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Just imagine what would happen if all the fancy clothing stores released copies of their designs?!

You would never buy clothes again, right?

Only a fool would pay for something when he can get it for free.

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Why buy a car when you can make one yourself?

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L33t!


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-- Eunux.net

[lxskllr]

-- Eunix.net

Amusing, with some shreds of truth, but over a decade out of date. I'm for ******* capitalism in the *** :^D

[Crow]

I remember using Red Hat Linux (before they switched to 'business enterprise only'). It was a nice, solid OS.

[lxskllr]

I don't have a problem with MS, and I think they make a good product, at a good price. I'd say Linux owes it's popularity to Windows. Without MS standardizing things around the IBM platform, Linux would be a hobby geeks played with in the basement instead of a feasible replacement for mainstream O/Ss.

[devilock76]

I don't have a problem with MS, and I think they make a good product, at a good price. I'd say Linux owes it's popularity to Windows. Without MS standardizing things around the IBM platform, Linux would be a hobby geeks played with in the basement instead of a feasible replacement for mainstream O/Ss.

I am of a similar mindset. The bottom line is I have the know how to take the level of control *nix style operating systems offer of my system and they are my preferred way to work. Microsoft work though pays most of my bills. That isn't really accurate but my day job enforces a Windows workstation environment. Funny because the system I code for lives on a solaris box and our toolkit is an extension on eclipse. Of course the new UI is moving to Silverlight but that is a whole other issue. Since we have a robust terminal server environment the users who can and would want an alternate operating system would technically save us money and not be hindered in the way they work at all.

However when I am not at that job I am working on music software and despite the commercial products available under microsoft, I can't lean out the OS underneath to boost their performance like I can in a *nix environment. Also the webserver world is not a world of Microsoft.

On a side note this thread gave me the urge to go ahead and throw the Debian Netinstall into a Virtual Box. Wow, I forgot how just easy some things are in debian.

Ken