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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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Work well? I just went through the exercise of using ndiswrapper to get some Windoze drivers loaded on the notebook.
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Yes, transparency FTW. Especially if your machine has the horsepower to do direct rendering.
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It's a nice fringe but not a must have here. I
do like the tabbed interface, especially on the notebook with limited screen real estate.
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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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Ouch. So compatibility isn't quite there yet. My SO bought a replacement laptop when her old one died horribly, and I was amused to note is came with OO as the productivity suite.
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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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I got introduced to Geany by Puppy Linux, which bundles it as the standard GUI editor, because it's a good combo of features vs small size. (Puppy is intended for older hardware, and the devs place a premium on small size of included apps.)
I was already familiar with the Scintilla edit control, and have several other editors that use it, so Geany was an easy sell. I also recently installed the JASSPA Linux build of their fork of Microemacs. I've been a Microemacs user since the MS-DOS days, and built an earlier Daniel Lawrence version "out of the box" on my old AT&T 3B1 running Unix System V Release 2. It's quite light weight, and the GUI version loads in about 2 seconds, which is about five times as fast as Geany.
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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...
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It works well enough here. I prefer the architecture of FF and the ability to extend it with add-ons, but current versions are too big and resource intensive for the old notebook. Once I figure out how to install my preferred ad blocking CSS package, it will be pretty much usable.
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Dennis