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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I'm not that visual.
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Understood.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Windows 7 - Press Winkey, start typing the name of the application you want.
Windows 8 - Press Winkey, start typing the name of the application you want.
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KDE - Press Alt-F2, start typing the name of the application you want.
(I think Alt-F2 is the default; it's fully configurable and I long ago changed mine to Alt-Spacebar, but you could just as easily change it to the WinKey.)
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
...the contrast between Windows 8 recognizing all my hardware instantly and automatically, vs. Linux behaving inconsistently....
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Aside from occasional video issues, I haven't seen a hardware problem under Linux in at least three years. But everybody's mileage varies.
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Close enough, that I'm going to declare Win8 the first desktop OS I've seen since the Apple II that is truly a consumer product....
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Any OS that has to be installed by the end-user is already too complicated to be called a "consumer product", IMHO. Most folks just use whatever came preinstalled until their machine dies.
I think what keeps me with Linux more than anything else are the software repositories (it's iPad and the app store -- better because everything's free -- easier than dealing with software under Windows) and security (no such thing as a Linux virus). That alone is worth any hardware issues I run into.
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The word vastly is vastly overused in tech journalism. No need for us amateur pundits to adopt the bad habits of the pros  |
I bristle at the implication that I need professionals to teach me my bad habits. I'm well-versed in them on my own, thank you very much :-)
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
If you include the method for installing software as part of the user interface
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I wouldn't, so I guess we have different definitions here. The UI is what you see onscreen and what defines how you interact with the operating system I/O-wise. Muon and Synaptic (the new and old software library software, respectively) are part of the OS, but not the UI.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
going to the latest version of Calibre is identical on Win7 and Win8, and different from either on KDE.
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Oddly enough, as of the latest version, the Calibre repository stopped working, so all that's available to me through Muon is an older version. For the more recent versions, I actually had to locate, download and manually install it. Almost made me feel as if I was on Windows again. Such a hassle
