Hi ag, Hello Nicolai, Hi zz, Hello Dmitrij
I hope you don't mind, I thought I would create a combined answer in
hopes of not upsetting people with too many of my posts.
I very much appreciate all your responses.
I don't mind extra work at all and I can try to customize things, my
concern is software correctness and confidence in projects.
I see a parallel here with food. I bet 30 years ago, people used to cook
from scratch and know what was in their food. I bet 30 years ago people
coded from scratch and knew more about the code they were shipping.
These days it wouldn't be hard to imagine that some people know you
should scrape off the chocolate coating from this particular cake
because the milk used in the chocolate came from a supplier that put
melamine in their milk at one point.
I think everyone should be able to stuff their face with cake only
fearing obesity and diabetes, they shouldn't have to worry about plastic.
Having to rework the default settings on a project is a lot like
scraping the chocolate, if the "outside" of the project is that crap,
what about the inside?
I will definitely look into a variety of low fat window managers, the
options make me dizzy though :)
On 13-05-24 09:01 PM, ag@gmail wrote:
Have you considered a thought that XFCE may be easily customizable? The
non-existing program entries can be removed and the UI customized to your
liking?
From what you describe it doesn't seem you require pretty graphics. I would
suggest trying out the light window managers. Customizing a window manager to
your liking is pretty straightforward with the light variants (not gnome and
kde - these are SAKs - Swiss Army Knives). You may possibly find one that
exactly matches the job...
-ag
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On May 24, 2013, at 5:39 PM, "Patrick Mc(avery"
<spell_gooder_...@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
Hi Marti
Thanks so much for your rapid and helpful response.
I will still consider Mac OSX but it's just that it is the worst of two worlds
for me. Labs use Windows only. If I ship something that works on windows, I
don't have to swim against the current with this topic. I am willing to swim
for free software but OSX is not free either :(
-Patrick
On 13-05-24 06:59 PM, Marti Martinez wrote:
Gnome isn't bad on OpenBSD, but depending on what you don't like about
linux, that may not live up to your expectations.
Frankly, though, as an almost life-long Windows user both personally
and professionally, if I had GUI concerns I'd seriously consider
whether OSX was a viable option rather than Windows. With that said, I
wouldn't target either platform for X11.
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Patrick Mc(avery
<spell_gooder_...@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone
My name is Patrick, this is my first post here.
I switched my primary computer from Windows to Linux about 9 years ago.
I service scientific instruments. About 12 years ago I became aware of the
brutal conditions scientific software is sold under. I have been slowly
writing my own application to work with these instruments, it's taken a long
time because I have had to learn to code.
I had always planed on deploying on Linux.
While about 7 out of the 9 years with Linux have been good, the graphical
experience on Linux has plummeted for me. I don't really want to send
prospective customers to Linux any more. I am fearing that Windows may end
up being my only option.
It looks like OpenBSD is all about software correctness and I am sure it
will be great to work with, in a sort of "back end" way but is there a
desktop manager to work with it that can match the reliability of OpenBSD?
I tried to load Fluxbox and was disappointed with it. It had several
menubuttons for application that were not yet installed.
Any help would be very much appreciated, I feel trapped and it sounds weird
to say this but I am really a bit depressed about the idea of heading back
to Windows.
