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DEAD MAN'S SHOE
Nov 23, 2003

We will become evil and the stars will come alive

SurgicalOntologist posted:

After trying it out on my Chromebook, I'm considering making the switch from Unity to Gnome3 for my Ubuntu DE. I like the dynamic desktop idea, although unless I'm missing some features I don't think it's quite there yet.

So.. is there a way to add a desktop in-between two other desktops, i.e. anywhere but the bottom? Or to easily shift existing desktops up or down? Without that it's hard to keep related desktops together. I find myself moving one app down, then alt-tabbing and moving something else down, ad nauseum, just to create an empty space somewhere.

Another killer feature would be a dynamic 2D arrangement, automatically adding columns to the right.

I have to ask, how does ubuntu - particularly flash on chromium - fare on the Chromebook, and what are the specs?

Last I tried, I could get the footprint of a barebones IceWM install with gnome-tools down to a couple of gigs, but I'm very doubtful about about flash or openbox in many ways

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DEAD MAN'S SHOE
Nov 23, 2003

We will become evil and the stars will come alive
That's additionally good news as I am a big R user. I'll need it to handle SPSS etc on a VM but just for training, nothing intensive

DEAD MAN'S SHOE
Nov 23, 2003

We will become evil and the stars will come alive
What do people like to code in? I'm coming from OSX where TextWrangler was the absolute best for writing in, but my beard isn't long enough for Vim yet

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