Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes

Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by cat199 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:51PM (#16708591)

> Linux GUIs have been getting all fancy with it

this is true mainly only for current Gnome and KDE-

stay with xfce, lxde or even a window manager and this is not the case.

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Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by Multicomp on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:12PM (#16708795)

I'm only just now trying out Debian KDE as a daily driver (previously only Windows/OSX for all non "RDP/SSH into this box, run 5 commands for troubleshooting stuff then exit" usage scenarios) and I have to say, I'm okay with them getting all fancy with it if it means I have fuzzy analogues to Windows' Start Menu, Control Panel applets, settings dialogues, etc.

The menus, etc. help me grope my way through the dark as I learn the "Linux Way" of computing concepts.

Edit: fix my grammar a bit

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Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by komali2 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:58PM (#16708653)

Barebones gnome has been great for me. One time I did the "full" install by accident and yea it came with a bunch of bullshit games and stuff, but otherwise it's been the most stable out of all of them.

Unity or whatever Ubuntu ships with did not like working from an install on neither my macbook pro nor my thinkpad, and it really didn't like my 4k monitor. KDE didn't like switching between 4k and my laptop screen.

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