On 11/24/2011 12:29 PM, gk wrote: > Okay so you would rather be forced to have NO DE choice and no way to > change it and something that breaks rather consistently? Thought > not.. Don't spread FUD. There are choices on Windows. In fact, SharpEnviro is quite nice... > And you don't > like all of KDE4, and you don't like all of LXDE. Choose the parts you > want! KDE apps run on Gnome, Gnome apps run on KDE, all of it > ultimately is just a pretty face for /usr/bin/blah when it comes down > to it making it look pretty for you. I'm aware of that. I did mention the issues I had with OpenBox and lxappearance. > NO desktop except the tilers and > plain TTY is 'light'; ya I'm gonna get $hit on that but unused RAM is > wasted RAM and drive space is cheap so I hate the whining I always > hear from people about it. Being lightweight is a bonus. I never complained about the RAM/disk space usage of KDE/Gnome. > I have tried at least 30, yes 30! DE/WM's So the only barriers are > honestly imaginary. I haven't. Perhaps you could share your wisdom. > I encourage you run in terminal as much as you can sometimes pkill > firefox is the only way to stop run away javascript/flash etc versus > having to hard shutdown a machine because ctrl-alt-del or > ctrl-alt-prntscr r-e-i-s-u-b won't work; and lose data. If that is a > critical work environment it's just not acceptable. I am familiar with many commands, and do plan to expand my knowledge. However, many times, things are more convenient to do with a GUI, even if I know how to do it in a terminal. Mike Miller wrote: > It was a very trollish query. I was tempted to recommend that he stick > with Windows, if he loves it so much. I'm sorry if I came across that way. I'll put this another way: I want to move away from Windows and would like help because I do not know everything. Also, when did I say I loved Windows? I don't see how I even implied that.