C> > the same keyboard shortcuts every time. Not that it could happen n
C> > need a Microsoft for the nix world.
C>
C> Ok, now that's just crazy talk :-)
^ this is the best concept ever.
I'm a huge supporter, now after changing unix-like employment about 7
times in 10 years, and as many as 30 different unix machines I made as
a desktop home, from college to work to home -- customization is BAD
I keep no .dotrc files anylonger. None at all. I learn to use whatever
it is the way it arrives by default. This is why I stopped using twm,
which I found only palatable with a .twmrc, in favor of cwm, which had
all i wanted by default.
Every now and then I still put larger font sizes into an .XResources
file, or something in .ssh/config, like port forwarding or some such,
but more or less I've become extremely nomadic -- I can sit to any
linux or OSX machine and quickly make myself at home.
Too bad I can't say the same for windows -- just to get any work
started requires several software installs and reboots. Most offices
provide at least two working days to get "settled in" if they begin you
on a windows desktop. Its actually known that this $200 OS can't get
any fucking work done out of the box. Sad, really. Though, it has a lot
more to do with the lack of any useful tooling software than it does
the GUI itself -- like you say, you can't really fix or change the
bindings, you just get used to them.
I *still* use ctrl+Escape instead of the windows key, even when I have
a windows key, because my first windows 95+ experiences were on
keyboads without them. And last I checked, it *still* works, haw haw. I
recently found a way to navigate and tab through those window groups on
the start menu purely with the keyboard, (not alt+tab, but actual like,
selection and navigation right/left/up/down). Too bad I already forgot
it, it was hard to find and even harder to remember, clearly.
just glad I'm no longer employed under windows hell again, haven't seen
it since january and I don't miss it a bit !
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