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Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i thought java was a pile of poo poo until i got off windows. now it's a little bit less of a pile of poo poo I guess.

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Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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is it triggering you to install linux on your desktop?

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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at least the apple app store gives you apps that aren't any different from regular apps

e: i thought i stumbled into the microsoft titanic thread again

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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with a non-free account even if someone else paid for it

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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rich, please open source all my posts

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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gnome 3 has dynamic enough workspaces to make minimizing feel unnecessary.

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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gnome apps still look like they came straight out of 1995, but otherwise it doesn't look too terrible

:bsdsnype:

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Soricidus posted:

how things look is definitely super-important, god forbid I use an unfashionable desktop that has (shudder) bezels or (retch) gradients or something terrible like that
all of this but entirely serious

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Soricidus posted:

how do you feel about drop shadows
acceptable, especially in osx yosemite the most advanced and beautiful etc etc

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Cocoa Crispies posted:

worst of all, it apparently opens the bitcoin paper

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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hamburger menus are even worse when app developers can't even decide if they want them on the top right or top left.

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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pram posted:

Well they're all under preferences under their menu, right next to the apple menu
and all bound to cmd+,

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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firefox does the same thing on windows if you don't have the title bar enabled. only reason I keep the titlebar off tbh

e:f;b

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Soricidus posted:

once you've got them visible you can just go to the view options and there's one to make them visible all the time

the windows part of microsoft still cared about users in those days
this was also the only thing that made windows media player useful at all

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i dunno, one thing that makes osx handy now is being able to select help and start typing a thing if you're especially out of your head while using your computer

saved my rear end while drunk photoshopping

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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pram posted:

Its only Free if your time is Worthless
wisdom

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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my first linux was that ubuntu cd with the smiling people on it

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i bought 2 copies of win7 on newegg what seems like ages ago now

i later on sold one to a coworker who wanted to bootcamp their mac

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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best buy? more like WORST BUY

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Maximum Leader posted:

maybe he is literally einstein reincarnated
hmm yes the einstein of linux

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i'm literally an art school dropout turned cj. i should probably look into working for microsoft

Last Chance posted:

scrap all linux window environments and start over.
already been done

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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ctrl+f to forward, not to find

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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"i'm linux, and i have a lot of users"
"for what distros?"
"uhh...."

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i consider linux mint to be the distro for people who wish windows xp was still alive

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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when i put linux on a laptop my hdmi ports didn't work unless i went just full gpu power

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Symbolic Butt posted:

a terrible boss I once had told me to use aptitude instead of apt-get because "apt-get doesn't believe in GNU"

I refuse to check around to see what the gently caress he was talking about
probably just "against gnu" in the same sense that ubuntu allows EVIL PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE to get onto your computer by having a checkbox to install mp3 codecs

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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bobbilljim posted:

linux users are their own worst enemy

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

from what i understand krita is actually a nice application

...but what the gently caress is up with that mascot
krita and mypaint are seriously the only linux apps i've seen pick up wacom tablet pressure proper without any extra fuckery

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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pram posted:

look at kaptain kde over here
fixed

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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ZShakespeare posted:

Just use KDE: The Least Garbage Linux Desktop, and then you already have the packages you need to run whatever it is I can't be assed to scoll up.
a program for drawing anime

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i used to be more wowed the by the idea of open source when i was in high school, but these days i'm just willing to pay for poo poo that works out of the box so i can get things done

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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cultivator of foot cheese

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i like KDE plasma 5 and i always thought KDE looked like trash

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

i am intrigued by the new power management stuff in the new kde beta
https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.2.95.php
anyone here tried it?

how the gently caress is KDE looking more appealing than upgrading my lenovo to win 10?

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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pram posted:

i have a 3d spinning teapot, an mp3, AND a mov file playing at the same time

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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eschaton posted:

turns out it was having virtualbox installed that hosed my networking

uninstall virtualbox, networking works at startup. install virtualbox, networking only works after interactive login.

Linux.
oracle'd again

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

this happens even between versions of microsoft office

it's just a really bad document format
yeah i had to send a doc i typed up in office 2007 to a company that was apparently running 2003, and they called me up and asked what was up with the hosed up formatting

don't use doc anywhere ever if you can help it

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Last Chance posted:

ive always wondered if the vast difference between the written languages is responsible for what we perceive to be poo poo UI when it might be fine in japanese
japanese being read from right to left as opposed to left to right is a good place to start to account for a lot of what we see as weird bullshit

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Tankakern posted:

gentoo with systemd is the best
there is nothing about gentoo that i'd describe as "the best"

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Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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free beer is always terrible though

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