🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Prank gone wrong!
http://news.yahoo.com/ax-hefting-dutch-clown-friends-punished-prank-202220592.html
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TRWTF is people choosing a distro based on desktop environment, though!
I mostly look at the package manager. If it's sane and tends to not fuck things up, or at least warns you if it might (looking at you pacman!), I'm good. If it has a DE I like bundled with it, it's a bonus.
Ugh. Tiling window managers.... less isn't more. less is less.
Depends on your workflow. There are times where I'd actually like one (I sometimes have to ssh into multiple machines at once), but I'm too lazy to switch sessions every now and then, so I just have a tiling plugin for Cinnamon. Works well enough for me.
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I mostly look at the package manager. If it's sane and tends to not fuck things up, or at least warns you if it might (looking at you pacman!), I'm good. If it has a DE I like bundled with it, it's a bonus.
Once you go apt-get, you can't go back.
Depends on your workflow. There are times where I'd actually like one (I sometimes have to ssh into multiple machines at once), but I'm too lazy to switch sessions every now and then, so I just have a tiling plugin for Cinnamon. Works well enough for me.
Yeah, tiling manager on top of the standard windows-like desktop is the one.true.waytm to do work. It's one of the best things Windows has brought to the table (and yes, I'm sure there was some obscure distro somewhere that did this, but I'm talking mainstream).
Cinnamon was pretty good, but it just wouldn't work in VirtualBox without 3D acceleration. I had to settle with XFCE modified with the corner tiling support patched in. Works pretty nice, all things considered.
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Opening large maps in Valve Map Editor Bug Simulator 2010
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Expecting Valve to do anything right except gameplay and selling hats to morons.
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They did pretty well at violating the laws of spacetime, though.
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They
steam a good hammade a good Steam.
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I really, really like Bodhi Linux fir a nice lightweight distro, although enlightenment still needs a bit of maturing before it can stand on its own amongst the masses.
I've currently run mint though - cinnamon on my laptop and kde on the desktop.
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It took them a few years.
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I just use XMonad over Gnome (or used to... long story, but Ubuntu sucks). The nice thing about tiling is that it takes care of managing windows for you. And they tend to be extremely easy to customize. So, in particular, you can make workflows that work for you, really easily. I set up vim-like keybindings to switch between desktops, window panes, etc: ,hjkl to switch between Vim windows. Alt-hjkl to switch between X-windows, Alt-12345... to switch between desktops.
Maybe I'll set that up again in a few weeks.
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It took them a few years.
So I keep hearing. Although I've technically been using it for quite a while (since HL2, which I got as a boxed copy) but never used it much until more recently, so maybe I missed out on all the problems.
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Just for reference, the plugin I use for kinda-tiling-management:
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Looks nice. Can you assign keys to these? Like Super+KPD_3 to put it in the lower-right corner? Also, can you just drag window into a corner and have it snap into place there?
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Looks nice. Can you assign keys to these? Like Super+KPD_3 to put it in the lower-right corner? Also, can you just drag window into a corner and have it snap into place there?
Unfortunately, no.
Cinnamon has built in snapping that supports half of screen (drag to edge) and quarter of the screen (drag to corner). Also CtrSuper + direction snaps to corresponding half (corner if you hit two arrow keys). I have this because it's more granular though.
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Too bad, that would be a deal breaker for me. I need to be able to quickly move windows around. Key shortcuts or mouse are a must, both are preferable.
Getting back to the bad ideas, how about failing to jump over that barrier to reading? Or thinking?
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Too bad, that would be a deal breaker for me. I need to be able to quickly move windows around. Key shortcuts or mouse are a must, both are preferable.
Getting back to the bad ideas, how about failing to jump over that barrier to reading? Or thinking?
<img src='/uploads/default/3823/10b3f624a1ce0f62.jpg'>
I think we should return all the triceratops to their natural habitat in Africa.
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I think we should return all the triceratops to their natural habitat in Africa.
Also the humans?
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XMonad can do that. I'm sure Awesome can too, but I've never used it.
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Wait, are you saying triceratops isn't a racial slur?
You insensitive stegosaurus! How dare you!
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XMonad can do that. I'm sure Awesome can too, but I've never used it.
I know. It can. The problem is they can do little else.
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What do you want your window manager to do?
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let me have... windows?
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let me have... windows?
If you need Windows on Linux, you should look into using a virtual machine.
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So you want a window manager that lets you have unmanaged windows?
XMonad lets you pull windows out of the tiling scheme, so that they're effectively "unmanaged". I'm sure Awesome can do it too.
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You were watching... waiting... biding your time. You saw the opening. You pounced! Respect.
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Windows? That's a thing of the past. You don't need them. No, really, you don't need them. You're doing it wrong. Humans can only focus their attention on one thing at a time. Look, you can have two things on screen at the same time, why would you want more. Alright, you can have three. But you don't need windows. Windows add unnecessary complexity to user interfaces. Stop asking for windows already. Windows are a thing of the past. They won't come back. You don't need windows. Alright, you can have windows. Aren't we great?
- Microsoft Windows team
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So you want a window manager that lets you have unmanaged windows?
XMonad lets you pull windows out of the tiling scheme, so that they're effectively "unmanaged". I'm sure Awesome can do it too.
Yeah. And they do it in the most half-assed unusable way possible.
The point is, both the pure tiling and pure stacking wm's have their strengths and weaknesses. If you are a terminal guru sysadmin who lives inside ssh and vim, then I can see how tiling might be your thing. If you're a graphic designer on Mac, then stacking a hundred toolbars and widgets all around the place is for you.
I'm doing all sorts of different stuff, so I need both - floaty most of the time, with a quick tile option within grasp. That's all I'm saying.
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Windows? That's a thing of the past. You don't need them. No, really, you don't need them. You're doing it wrong. Humans can only focus their attention on one thing at a time. Look, you can have two things on screen at the same time, why would you want more. Alright, you can have three. But you don't need windows. Windows add unnecessary complexity to user interfaces. Stop asking for windows already. Windows are a thing of the past. They won't come back. You don't need windows. Alright, you can have windows. Aren't we great?
- Microsoft Windows team
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few paragraphs later
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*sniff* please don't leave us *sniff* we can be like Apple *sniff* we promise...
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One day these magnificent beasts will be extinct and then what will happen? Arseholes like George Lucas will come hunting YOU!!!!
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Fairly sure by then it'll be Zombie George we'll be dealing with, and instead of 'braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains', it'll be 'starwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars'
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That triceratops was clearly an illegal dinosaur. Someone notify @SpectateSwamp immediately.
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He actually browses this forum... but hasn't posted in over a month.
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He actually browses this forum... but hasn't posted in over a month.
I knew he had posted here a couple of times early on -- after Nagesh went out of his way to invite him -- but I didn't realize he was reading on a regular (?) basis. In any case, I still think summoning him is a bad idea.
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psh
he's way too whacked out to even manage to make it back here.
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. It was not a success like any of the widely recognized good versions
I wouldn't call it 'not a success' you're c apples and oranges. 98 and XP where consumer products. NT and 2000 where not. Yet they where a success in their own market. You also can't forget that these two versions made the Windows server market. If 2000 server hadn't been a success we wouldn't be speaking about windows servers anymore.
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I liked your post. Can I have a hat now?
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I think we should return all the triceratops to their natural habitat in Africa.
Ahem:
Triceratops remains have...been found in the American states of Montana and South Dakota (in addition to Colorado and Wyoming), and in the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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Here
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"More responsive" just doesn't seem right.
Responsive is what they call webpages that work well on everything from phones to PCs. Probably a bad idea.and could care less about what the defaults are.
So you do care?
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Thank you!
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I hope she doesn't snap a band
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It won't surprise anyone here to find there's more than one idiot on the internet: