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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I run Ubuntu on my desktop, and Ubuntu and Puppy on my notebook.
Desktop Ubuntu uses Gnome. Notebook uses Xfce4, as does Puppy. (NB: not Xubuntui. That was painfully slow on the old limited notebook. Ubuntu installed bare bones to a CLI interface from MinimalCD, then Xfce4 and friensd installed via apt-get works a lot better.),
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I agree; tried that with my Acer Aspire One since it has the GMA500 chipset for which there is little-to-no *nix support.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I like Terminal and Sakura, both of which do tabs instead of multiple windows and can do transparency. (Under Windows, I use Console2, which is similar.)
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Yes, transparency FTW. Especially if your machine has the horsepower to do direct rendering.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Open Office 3.2 doesn't offer sufficient support for docx?
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Open and edit, yes; create/save as, no. Also I've noticed a lot more formatting getting munged when going from MS Office to OO.o, and school are sticklers for APA formatting.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I like Xfe for file manager, though I have PCManFM installed. Nano is here, but my preferred editor is Geany, a lightweight IDE based on the Scintilla edit control. It does code folding and syntax highlighting for a host of languages.
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Geany is nice. I kind of miss kwrite, but not enough to install 1.5 GB of bloat and have a bunch of devs cut me off at the knees when it comes to customizing my desktop.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I prefer FF/TB, but use Opera 10.10 on the notebook for faster loading and lower resource usage.
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Just installed 10.10-4742, we'll try it again. For some reason some glitch or other keeps sending me back to FF. Better the devil you know...