Re: Re: desktop enviornment
By: Nightfox to Access Denied on Tue Aug 13 2013 06:47 pm
> Re: Re: desktop enviornment
> By: Access Denied to Nightfox on Tue Aug 13 2013 11:51:41
>
> AD> Definitely easier these days. I had the same issues trying to get XFree
> AD> and Xorg to work back in the day. Most of the time the Xorg script to d
> AD> it for you never worked, so it was all manual configuration. That took
> AD> entirely too much time, but I guess at least I learned something at tha
> AD> point. Now I'd rather have it easy. If I do want a GUI desktop, I will
> AD> install something easier that would do most of it for you. I won't dig
> AD> deep into setting up X anymore.
>
> That has been my feeling as well. I always thought I was at least learning
> something, and perhaps after messing with it for a while, I hoped I'd
> eventually know how to get it working right. :)
>
> AD> I think by now I can say I've used it long enough to bypass all that cr
> AD> and just get the job done. :)
>
> Same here. :) I think there's something to be said for software that works
> well and makes things easy. It's not about being a lazy user, but rather be
> able to be productive and not have to be held back by spending time trying t
> get a broken setup to work.
>
> Nightfox
>
thats why I like my mac mini too.
OSX 10 and Os9 both run on a machine with 256 megs of ram.
I'd like to see another os do that.
"Practise safe Lunch, Use a Condiment"
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