On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Erik Mitchell <erik.mitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

> Gnome vs. KDE... what about the lighter window managers? I'm a big fan
> of Awesome.
>

> And what about text editors? I use VIM, because it's so much better
> than Emacs. Flamewar #3, commence.
>

When I want to move/resize/open new windows, I just write quick scratch
programs in C against xlib directly.  You can't get more lightweight than no
window manager.   And I write those programs in VIM, because it's better
than emacs. ;)

-Rob


>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com>
> wrote:
> > I like 64 bit Ubuntu on my laptop with 4 gigs of ram but the
> gnome-terminal sucks so I now use konsole exclusively. I then tried the full
> kde plasma desktop and found it looks very nice and clean but prefer the
> basic simplicity of gnome interface powerful enough for me yet basic enough
> to not have to spend any real time learning, just jump in and go.
> >
> > Comments? Suggestions? Random musings? Perhaps a statement on free
> govenment vs centralized markets?
> > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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