Re: Re: desktop enviornment
By: Corey to Nightfox on Tue Aug 13 2013 07:50 pm
> 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 XF
ree
> > AD> and Xorg to work back in the day. Most of the time the Xorg script t
o d
> > AD> it for you never worked, so it was all manual configuration. That to
ok
> > 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 wi
ll
> > AD> install something easier that would do most of it for you. I won't d
ig
> > AD> deep into setting up X anymore.
> >
> > That has been my feeling as well. I always thought I was at least learni
ng
> > 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 wo
rks
> > 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 tryin
g 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"
>
>
There are versions of linux that run on 16 GB ram [20~without a gui[21~. There
are verisons with the GUI that run with as little as 64 mb ram.
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