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| Thread ID: 132838 | 2013-05-23 04:49:00 | Linux interfaces | Nick G (16709) | PC World Chat |
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| 1342683 | 2013-05-23 04:49:00 | Thought I'd see which DE's our Linux users like, and why. Personally I'm a Cinnamon fan - the system tray works well, the menu is great, whole panel very slick and polished. Pretty decent battery life as well. Now that Cinnamon 1.8 is out, the multiple hot corners, desklets, and easier installation of applets are all nice features. The wifi system tray icon could be improved (the function not the looks) - its probably the worst wifi applet I've seen. Bit bemused about why the developers felt the need to have a 'normal' and an 'advanced' mode in the cinnamon settings, but apart from that I can't think of any real changes that I think should be made. Having said that I'm running unity at the moment, just for a short while, to see if its better in 13.04 that 12.10 Anyway, why do you use the DE you do, and what would you improve/change about it? Note - I may or may not be highly bored right now, I'll leave you to work that one out :p |
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| 1342684 | 2013-05-23 06:32:00 | Cinnamon, Mate, or OpenBox :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1342685 | 2013-05-23 07:01:00 | KDE (even with Mint). | Jen (38) | ||
| 1342686 | 2013-05-23 07:21:00 | Xfce with compiz for a wm | fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1342687 | 2013-05-23 07:37:00 | Been using Ubuntu 13.04 for the last 2 weeks. Really loving it with Unity (Even though it is a bit laggy on my computer). I'm slowly moving everything to the cloud so the actual OS doesn't really matter for me. I sometimes need to use C# - so I use a virtual machine. Chrome is pretty much the only program I use - and it performs far better on Linux than it did on Windows. I should probably try out some other desktop environments... | sahilcc7 (15483) | ||
| 1342688 | 2013-05-23 07:38:00 | ^Cinnamon is pretty good :D | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1342689 | 2013-05-23 08:37:00 | Xfce. It's clean and simple but not devoid of useful features. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1342690 | 2013-05-23 10:02:00 | I have Zorin on my laptop. I like it. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1342691 | 2013-05-25 08:14:00 | Ok a dumb question, last time I used a linux system as my desktop, many many many moons ago when redhat and SuSE were king, when you installed a new program no shortcuts were added to start the program, you had to do all that manually, making links to the executible file etc. has this changed, is there now some sort of central registry that the DE uses to know what programs are installed? | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1342692 | 2013-05-25 08:24:00 | Ok a dumb question, last time I used a linux system as my desktop, many many many moons ago when redhat and SuSE were king, when you installed a new program no shortcuts were added to start the program, you had to do all that manually, making links to the executible file etc. has this changed, is there now some sort of central registry that the DE uses to know what programs are installed? Pretty much - most DE's have a list of installed programs (in categories of course). Most also have a search box in the menu, so you can search directly for your app. And a few - cinnamon, mate, kde (just the ones I know do this off the top of my head), you can right click a program in the program list (think start menu), and there will be a 'add to desktop option. Hope this helps :) |
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