Re: Re: Ack; another thread, please!
By: Chris to Khelair on Sun Aug 25 2013 21:33:11

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That said, when I'm usually dealing with headless systems (most of the time) I'm actually doing ssh sessions from a windows pc. I usually need a cold shower by the end of the day....

At home, I'm usually using KDE plus Konsole for much of the admin stuff I do

Yeah, I don't deal with headless systems primarily anymore. I've not been a sysadmin for a good 5 years now. That being said, the OpenBSD system that I run my BBS and other 'server' stuff on is, indeed, headless. It's still got X on it in case I ever decide to slap a monitor back on it for some reason, but usually that's not necessary unless I'm upgrading the OS. I'm actually looking forward to taking it down and moving it to its new location, though. I'm finally going to have a good excuse to set up SNMP monitoring of bandwidth utilization and all sorts of other fun stuff with all the neat graphs. :)
As far as my desktop machine, it's debian with gnome classic for me right now. I had a laptop that had a really nice installation of OpenBSD that was unbelievably desktop friendly (for that particular OS) for awhile, but wouldn't you know it, the damn thing had to go and get thirsty on me. :(
I haven't checked out KDE for awhile, but honestly I've not been too happy with debian + GNOME for awhile now due to some ridiculous sound issues I've been having. I might update my desktop system soon and see what I can do about a new setup on here.

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Re: Re: Ack; another thread, please!
By: Khelair to Chris on Thu Aug 29 2013 10:52 pm

I haven't checked out KDE for awhile, but honestly I've not been too hap with debian + GNOME for awhile now due to some ridiculous sound issues I've been having. I might update my desktop system soon and see what I can do ab a new setup on here.

I recommend KDE for the most part. It probably is a bit more than what a lot of people need, but so far it seems to have come a long way over the few minor releases. The activities I have no use for right now, but I can see it being handy at some point.


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Re: Re: Ack; another thread, please!
By: Chris to Khelair on Tue Sep 10 2013 01:38 am

Re: Re: Ack; another thread, please!
By: Khelair to Chris on Thu Aug 29 2013 10:52 pm

I haven't checked out KDE for awhile, but honestly I've not been too hap with debian + GNOME for awhile now due to some ridiculous sound issues I've been having. I might update my desktop system soon and see what I can do ab a new setup on here.

I recommend KDE for the most part. It probably is a bit more than what a lot of people need, but so far it seems to have come a long way over the
few minor releases. The activities I have no use for right now, but I can see it being handy at some point.

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KDE is pretty cool but very bloated like Windoze is. That's the only problem with it.

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Re: Re: Ack; another thread, please!
By: Chris to Khelair on Tue Sep 10 2013 01:38:35

I recommend KDE for the most part. It probably is a bit more than what a lo of people need, but so far it seems to have come a long way over the few min releases. The activities I have no use for right now, but I can see it being handy at some point.

With all of the issues that I've had with debian since I switched
back to it, I really should try a switch to KDE. This sound crap that
I've had going on is absolutely absurd in this day & age. Maybe back in
'98 it was still excusable.

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Re: Re: Ack; another thread, please!
By: The Millionaire to Chris on Tue Sep 10 2013 12:59 pm

KDE is pretty cool but very bloated like Windoze is. That's the only problem with it.

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The KDE footprint is pretty big, but so long as you have a moderately built machine I have no problem recommending it. Obviously for a real slim machine (in terms of resources) I wouldn't try to wedge it in there when there are decent lightweight Desktops/WMs available.


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Re: Re: Ack; another thread, please!
By: Chris to The Millionaire on Sat Sep 21 2013 12:29 am

KDE is pretty cool but very bloated like Windoze is. That's the only problem with it.

The KDE footprint is pretty big, but so long as you have a moderately built machine I have no problem recommending it. Obviously for a real slim
machine (in terms of resources) I wouldn't try to wedge it in there when there are decent lightweight Desktops/WMs available.

i can understand THAT, but i'd rather use something else instead of a window manager and set of tools that are more windowsy than windows.

actually i prefer the cli to any linux gui except for maybe xfce.

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Re: Re: Ack; another thread, please!
By: Mro to Chris on Sat Sep 21 2013 09:36 am

actually i prefer the cli to any linux gui except for maybe xfce.

all my computers are dual core or better so it's not a performance preferenc

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Same here with regards to CLI for the most part. Unless I'm browsing or doing something that requires the gui (which is mainly at home), I'm usually at the command line.


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