Unbuntu

[James Gray]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:53 am, Ben Miller wrote:
> On Friday 08 July 2005 7:38 am, Andrew Wigglesworth wrote:
> > I find KDE to be far better integrated than Gnome,
> > with all sorts of apps happily co-operating, and a
> > properly working clipboard.
>
> This is the chief reason I run KDE, as well as the fact that it's more
> aesthetically pleasing to my eye, at least. There's nothing that can't be
> done in either environment and as far as I know, almost every application
> will run in either environment. It's a completely subjective choice: which
> environment will make you happier and more productive.
>
> == Ben

I'd agree that choice of environment based on aesthetics is subjective, but 
productivity is quantifiable.  However the two go hand-in-hand usually; 
you're most productive where you're most comfortable.

It was this combination of aesthetics and productivity that I used for my boss 
to justify a few slightly more expensive options on the work-supplied lappy, 
so it would happily run Linux.  I'm a Unix/Linux administrator and it makes 
no sense whatsoever for me to be running a non-*nix OS on my work-tools 
(lappy).

For the odd occasions I need to access a Windows machine, there's KDE's 
"SMB://" kio_slave and krdc, plus Conqueror supports NTLM authentication so 
the proxies and our webmail system are happy.  CUPS talks directly to the 
printers on TCP/9100 and the rest of my job is usual suspects of *nix tools.  
Apart from that, the Baghira theme is just plain sexy IMHO - I really wanted 
a PowerBook, but I'll settle for the HP6230 I've ordered.

Aesthetics and productivity indeed :)

James
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