The truth about Linux?

[voidmain]

http://www.xfce.org/

[preacher]

quote:Originally posted by Faust:
My twelve cents:
About a week ago I used nothing but KDE, gnome and IceWM because they looked familiar to me, being used to windows guis. All three are pretty good but now Im using enlightenment when I want looks, blackbox when i want speed and a terminal when I want to try and learn more...       IMHO start with KDE, gnome and/or icewm until you are at least a little settled in, then choose which manager you want out of all o' them.       I did notice that iceWM came on my mandrake distribution (and probably a lot of other distributions as well)with a mac theme... no idea which os it was a clone of because I havent used macs often but if you recognise it, you might want to use that (make you feel at home       )

Recently I installed Mandrake 9.0 on my 200mhz, and here is the deal. A lot of people are hard on Mandrake because of the speed thing. Ive found the real problem to be with the window managers kde and gnome. My primary window manager on this box is windowmaker, and programs are quick to open. The same is true when I use blackbox. Dont get me wrong, windowmaker and blackbox are by no means pretty, or as easy to use, but they work better on slow machines.

[Faust]

I have the exact same problem on my 1300, gnome especially.  Gnome is WAY too slow, especially compared to blackbox etcetera.

[Calum]

windowmaker is alright! i wouldn't go so far as to say it's as unpretty as blackbox.

[Faust]

unpretty isnt a word newspeak boy  

[Calum]

windows doubleplusunpretty. Linux doubleplusgooder than windows.

[Faust]

ROFL. Personally I enjoyed that book far more than watching some f grade "celebitry" bastards on tv. KILL! Well ok I didnt watch but hey I can still whine... I dunno win at least pluspretty, but more than compensated for by being tripleplusshit. No wait let me doublethink that pluspretty bit... 8-)

[Faust]

[sarcasm] Strangely enough [/sarcasm] that book reminded me so damn much of-
/m3 lz 1337 k-r4d h4x0r d00d, /me h4x0r j00!
p4h! sif!
man that shit pisses me off...

[Chooco]

what do you guys honestly think about Lycoris?

i saw a 1 minute quick presentation by a representative of Lycoris on TV (don't ask why or what show) but he said that it's basically a very easy to use system and their Office package actually works quite well with the MS Office package. MS Office and Lycoris Office files can reach and understand each other (he claimed at least)

is any of this valid, it seems like a very feasable opponent to windows but i've never used it really, i've only ever used Mandrake. could somebody WHO HAS USED LYCORIS please shed light on this? if you haven't used Lycoris before, don't even bother trying to say if it's good or not.