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How to make your Windows machine more stable and secure
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--- Quote from: muzzy ---Are we going to argue about X11 now? As far as I know, a modern X11 desktop uses shitloads of bandwidth, and running remote applications on it with all that eyecandy is a lagfest. I've always considered the remote nature of X11 to be one of its strenghts, and that's being greatly reduced with all the blehbleh stuff.
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That "blehbleh" stuff is the responsebility of KDE and Gnome, not X.org.
You are still able to run a light-weight Blackbox or IceWM without the eye candy lagfest. And yes, those two are pretty modern too.
If it's necessary to run X on a server (which can sometimes be useful), I strongly disrecommend KDE or Gnome, because it wastes CPU and it slows down VNC.
muzzy:
I actually prefer fvwm, although it sometimes feels a little bloat, especially if I'm forced to use fvwm2. That's the way X should be, and that's the way it shows its power. I don't see the need for gui apps under X, since the ideology it best works with is having multiple terminals and some special display windows (xload, xclock, pager) along it. Web browser and gimp tend to require gui, because of the way they operate.
I heavily dislike any theme crap on X, and I dislike it on windows as well. Form follows function, and as long as the UI is functional, it will look good too. In my opinion, the people who disagree are the kind of people who don't use computers as a tool, but rather want an entertainment center or a decorated idling place. I personalize my systems with functionality rather than looks.
Calum:
i prefer windowmaker and in fact xfce myself, for more or less the same reasons.
BaselineAce:
This may just be the most useful tutorial ever written.
dmcfarland:
You make a windows machine more stable by removing Windows and installing Linux. :p
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