On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:35:38PM -0700, yamazakir2 wrote: > Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA? > I ask because I have tried many times to make the switch to linux for > general desktop usage but can't get over the inconvenience of it. I > have a linux box specifically for EDA (gschem, pcb, spice simulations, > etc), so I couldn't care less what the WM is. It could be motif for > all I care. >
UNIX for desktop, EDA, programming, server. Mostly Linux, most often Debian testing. As for the earlier question in this thread, my WM is a PIDwm (a modified version of dwm), but i spend >95% of my time on 80x25 VGA console anyway. Back a while I tried to really use windows once. It lasted for like 3 weeks. I was trying hard, and tried to convince myself that what I experience is only the learning curve and it will get better by time, but the more I learned, the worse it became, so after that brief period I replaced it with my first Debian-for-desktop-use-attempt. I was switching away from DOS ('90s), and before that period I believed Linux distros were good for server use and if I wanted to do cad work and web browsing and things like that, windows would be better. Ever since, I sometimes peek over the shoulders of windows users around, and I what I see is that things I hated in those 3 weeks got advanced and more dominant and things I missed are still missing or misimplemented. Meanwhile I also got used to actually modify software I use for so many years that I never give a try to non-free software anymore, because I hate to figure out after a few days that I can't fix something in it, due to legal/technical restrictions. Regards, Tibor _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user