On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Erik Mitchell <erik.mitchell at gmail.com>wrote: > Gnome vs. KDE... what about the lighter window managers? I'm a big fan > of Awesome. > > And what about text editors? I use VIM, because it's so much better > than Emacs. Flamewar #3, commence. > When I want to move/resize/open new windows, I just write quick scratch programs in C against xlib directly. You can't get more lightweight than no window manager. And I write those programs in VIM, because it's better than emacs. ;) -Rob > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> > wrote: > > I like 64 bit Ubuntu on my laptop with 4 gigs of ram but the > gnome-terminal sucks so I now use konsole exclusively. I then tried the full > kde plasma desktop and found it looks very nice and clean but prefer the > basic simplicity of gnome interface powerful enough for me yet basic enough > to not have to spend any real time learning, just jump in and go. > > > > Comments? Suggestions? Random musings? Perhaps a statement on free > govenment vs centralized markets? > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > -- > Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer > erik.mitchell at gmail.com > erik at ekmitchell.com > http://ekmitchell.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100824/3de6d5d7/attachment.htm