Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 14:33 +0700, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
>> 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has been surpassed in
>> looks by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know all, but
>> Windoze and Mac all look better on lesser graphic-cards. Things like
>> true clas
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Roger wrote:
> The "Oh! Wow" effect, I would say could be from windows and mac users
> whose mindset puts Linux circa "days of dos 3".
> Roger
I think people misunderstood my anecdote. The "Oh wow!" wasn't because
linux could do transparencies, but because it did
> 2) is solved! [ yum install gconf-editor ]
Nope. It's perhaps in the process of being solved. But the things that I
can edit, don't change a thing in the enabling of the wifi thing. In the
nm-applet group, there's the key 'disable-wifi-create'. I have a feeling I
need to change that.
I'm not joking. Yes, there are some look-perks that Linux has - like the
> > cube and the wobbly windows - that are nice, and "Oh wow!" indeed.
> But did
> > you notice my mentioning of the true transparency? Even conky isn't truly
> > transparent, but what about borders or panels?
Why? ?
Ubunt
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:55:19 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> []
>> Intel is famous for their poor quality video drivers for Linux. Just
>> run Wine with notepad and you will have some idea on what I am talking
>> about. Some of the mo
On 12/26/2010 12:49 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>
> So I launched my lshw-gui (not knowing a better way). But if it
> sees any video card, it calls it something else. How do I check what I've
> got in any given machine?
>
Doesn't show much (anything?) on the pci bus ...
lspci -v shows vide
On 12/26/2010 11:53 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> I'm aware of that, the reply-to is there for a purpose (deliberate e-mail
> redundancy, don't ask...).
As long as you know what's happening, it's no problem. Back when I did
tech support for an ISP, I regularly got calls from customers who
couldn
On 12/26/2010 09:02 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> 3) Gnome folks lack good taste for eye-candy :-D . If you try out just the
> default KDE spin, you'll find a much more interesting environment even by
> default, not to mention turning on desktop effects and such.
I use Gnome. The few times I tried
On 12/26/2010 07:55 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
> Intel is famous for their poor quality video drivers for Linux. Just
> run Wine with notepad and you will have some idea on what I am talking
> about.
Built in graphics card on a notebook. And, everything Just Works
including the 3D graphics.
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On 12/26/2010 04:44 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
> Leaving my comments on hardware management and wifi (almost) unnoticed.
Not unnoticed. Snipped because I didn't have a comment.
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:55:19 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
[]
> Intel is famous for their poor quality video drivers for Linux. Just
> run Wine with notepad and you will have some idea on what I am talking
> about. Some of the more famous games that were ported to Linux don't
> work th
On Sunday 26 December 2010 08:11 AM, Tim wrote:
> Transparency's all very well for shuffling windows about, trying to find
> the one you want behind the currently front-most one. But it's
> appalling to try and use a terminal or application when you're seeing
> what's behind it through what you're
On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 14:33 +0700, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
> 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has been surpassed in
> looks by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know all, but
> Windoze and Mac all look better on lesser graphic-cards. Things like
> true class-borders should
On 12/26/10 2:47 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/25/2010 11:33 PM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
>> 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has been surpassed in looks
>> by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know all, but Windoze and
>> Mac all look better on lesser graphic-cards.
> You are
> You are joking, aren't you? I don't know what you mean by "lesser
> graphic-cards," but I have a Toshiba laptop with Intel graphics and F 13
> that I use as a showpiece.
I'm not joking. Yes, there are some look-perks that Linux has - like the
cube and the wobbly windows - that are nice, a
--- Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/25/2010 11:33 PM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
> > 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has
> been surpassed in looks
> > by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know
> all, but Windoze and
> > Mac all look better on lesser graphic-cards.
>
> You are jo
On 12/26/2010 11:36 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Subject:
> Thoughts of a user
>
> 2) Wifi: It may be a sore point, but there is no ease of installing
> (newer) machines with built in wifi cards. While I understand that all
> those things are built for
su, 2010-12-26 kello 02:14 -0800, Suvayu Ali kirjoitti:
> The other day my (Mac using) supervisor went "Ooh wow" seeing my
> "translucent on move" windows on XFCE. :)
>
> --
> Suvayu
My (windoze 7 using) supervisor was astonished seeing my good old
timeless twm running on scientific linux ;-)
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On Sunday 26 December 2010 01:47 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/25/2010 11:33 PM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
>> 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has been surpassed in looks
>> by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know all, but Windoze and
>> Mac all look better on lesser graphic-
On 12/25/2010 11:33 PM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
> 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has been surpassed in looks
> by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know all, but Windoze and
> Mac all look better on lesser graphic-cards.
You are joking, aren't you? I don't know what you
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 14:33:32 +0700,
Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
>
> 2) Wifi: It may be a sore point, but there is no ease of installing
> (newer) machines with built in wifi cards. While I understand that all
It should work for wireless cards where there is freely redistributable
firmw
Hi There,
I have some thoughts regarding the future and aim fedora developers should
take. I - as a very average normal user - have installed several releases,
and am very happy with Fedora 13, and have no doubt Fedora 14 will satisfy
my needs as well. Having said that, there are some conce
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