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View Poll Results: Which is your prefered Window Manager?
Indeed. Looks really good. Congrats! In this webpage http://www.linuxbog.dk/wm/wm/wm-rene-wmer.html
can be seen many different wm screenshots. The web is in danish, but just press «nęste» in the upper right corner to see the pictures.
>> "Vista is one BIG system: the OS, interface, drivers, Desktop Environment, and more. If anything is bloatware, Vista (Windows in fact) is it."
i believe you can actually break windows(not sure about vista) apart(sort of) if you know some windows programming with basic know-how of windows language ...
my experience is that windows is faster than kde and gnome ...
Fluxbox on my laptop (because its light and attractive), WindowMaker on my workstation, and ratpoison on my packaging/dev partition (because all CPU cycles are precious and so is time)
My first day on linux, I tried KDE, then Gnome, both with default themes on. I went back to KDE, because I didn't like the default theme. (hey, I was a uber newbie, I didn't want to find out how to change it yet)
To today, I figured how to change KDE colors, windows decorations, icons, mouse cursor, how to compile them myself. Found out how to do that inside a day or two.
In Gnome, I don't know how to change the colors, I know how to change the windows decorations (to a certain degree), icons, not the mouse cursor, and compile them is a Pain In The Ass. All that inside a day or two as well.
I have to hand it to Gnome, it has an Anti-Procrastination interface.
i believe you can actually break windows(not sure about vista) apart(sort of) if you know some windows programming with basic know-how of windows language ...
Vista IS Windows (Windows Vista).
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my experience is that windows is faster than kde and gnome ...
The Windows UI is entirely direct rendering. Ever tried PPRacer in Mesa?
My favourite GUI is Xfce with AfterStep a close second. The two primary reasons are that both are easy on resources and look great. I run multiple X sessions, lots of background tasks, and tend to have many apps open at the same time. Having resource hogs like Gnome or KDE is not an option for me.
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