10 useful yhings to do after installing Karmic

Aryan Ameri info at ameri.me
Thu Nov 5 03:24:18 GMT 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 07:43 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> Aryan Ameri wrote:
> > ...
> > One good place to start is this blog post called "10 Useful Things to Do
> > After Installing Karmic Koala". I don't recommend doing all those 10
> > things, but doing 1, 3, 5, and 6 is probably a very good idea to have a
> > usable Ubuntu system. 
> >
> > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/10-useful-things-to-do-after-installing.html

> I've also got to say that #3 & #5 are less than useful to me - i want 
> minimal distractions on my desktop, so i use the icewm window manager, 
> which provides similar features with a lot less visual noise.  
> (Admittedly, i'm a little old-fashioned, and i still do a lot of work in 
> terminal sessions.)

[..]


I still do a lot of work in terminal as well, and I freely admit that
Compiz doesn't add anything to usability, it's just a gimmick. A pretty
cool one though. 

There was a time I used to care about memory usage and running a lean
and light desktop, but these days frankly RAM is so cheap that I just
don't care anymore. I've thrown 8 GB at this machine I built recently,
and it barely cost me a grand. Most of the time, I'm not even using a
fourth of my ram.

Gnome Do on the other hand, I think is an absolute must. It's so much
easier to launch programs by just hitting a keystroke and typing the
first two letters of the program, than to use menu/mouse and hunt for
the application in the menu. I believe Gnome Do has been a major
inspiration for Gnome Shell, which will appear in Gnome 3.0, so I guess
the Gnome developers felt the same way about it!

Nevertheless, the good thing about Linux is that it gives you choice. I
was once an Enlightment user, then a die-hard KDE fan, and now I find
myself using Gnome. I've also used LXDE and XFCE at various times.
Choice is good, it's the underlying strength behind OSS and I love it!

Cheers

-- 
Aryan Ameri




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