GNU / Linux September 2009 Desktops

By Barney T.
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Grand Master

fix-this!

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It's my desktop, you dill. :wacko: I can always photoshop in a widget, if you'd prefer.

No offense, but I guess you haven't been on this subforum much.

no need to be so rude either, i meant what distro is it? looks much to complicated for a average user.

and your right im not on this sub forum because i don't use linux anymore.

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no need to be so rude either, i meant what distro is it? looks much to complicated for a average user.

and your right im not on this sub forum because i don't use linux anymore.

Seeing how he's in the #archlinux channel on the screenshot I'd take stab in the dark and say he's running Arch Linux.

His setup does look strange to someone who's used to a 'normal' GUI environment. To some Linux users on the other hand it's minimalist/effective to have a tiling window manager and mostly CLI-based apps.

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Zapadlo

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no need to be so rude either, i meant what distro is it? looks much to complicated for a average user.

and your right im not on this sub forum because i don't use linux anymore.

No one was being rude, perhaps you should structure you questions better. Since the look of your desktop has very little to do with what distribution you are running.

Looks like Arch with XMonad, although I remember reading somewhere ootput was switching to Debian.

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Grand Master

fix-this!

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No one was being rude, perhaps you should structure you questions better. Since the look of your desktop has very little to do with what distribution you are running.

Looks like Arch with XMonad, although I remember reading somewhere ootput was switching to Debian.

why should i restructure my question? all it looked like was a desktop with a bunch of text on it, i don't see how you guys can use something like that? i wasn't being rude, his response was.

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Zapadlo

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why should i restructure my question? all it looked like was a desktop with a bunch of text on it, i don't see how you guys can use something like that? i wasn't being rude, his response was.

Since it was not apparent what you were referring to. No one was accusing you of being rude, but was ootput's response. Minimal windows managers are very quick and customizable, why NOT use them.

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DjmUK

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Lol - just so everyone knows, not every user uses a GUI with a WIMP environment. In other words, no pretty icons and wallpapers. Just a command line terminal (like dos), and I can tell you that an Operating System with NO windows/graphics manager is going to run a LOT faster/smoother than yours or mine.

P.S.

I like pretty icons as I'm not ready to be that leet just yet.

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ootput

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i wasn't being rude, his response was.

In my own defense, I call everyone a dill; that's my catchphrase of choice. ;)

But I was responding sarcastically, and I'm sorry. I just don't like "No offence, but.."-type statements as they are quite often intentionally offensive, although, in your case, the intention was far too vague.

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I stopped giving screenshot descriptions ages ago as most members weren't interested :blushing: but I do get the occasional request every now and then. Here's a post detailing one of previous screenshots: click

edit #2:

Curiously, you're also active in that thread - 4 posts down from mine. I guess you're still confused now, as you were then :D

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