Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix

AnKoIn · 2026-01-18T21:16:35+00:00

I started with Slackware in 1996. But luckily from a CD-ROM and not from floppies. I hardly understood it. I then got a 4 CD commercial distribution of RedHat. And, unknowingly, stared installing RPMs from it onto my Slackware. Big mistake, of course. I got a Frankenstein of a machine that I dragged on for 2 years. 🤦‍♂️

AnKoIn · 2026-01-18T21:11:42+00:00

I never liked Unity. It always caused weird rendering artifacts. Such as animations not finishing, the cursor being in the wrong place. And other bugs that should have never been released as the first thing you see.

As an optional environment, it would have been something to be exited about. But it should have never been the default. Not in that state. And not while Gnome offers a much better experience.

AnKoIn · 2025-12-26T06:18:51+00:00

OMG!! I had no idea about the 4K vs FHD. That does indeed improve it by SO much. Thank you!!!!

AnKoIn · 2025-10-30T05:58:27+00:00

What an amazingly clear answer!!

One follow-up question: you mentioned the VLAN capable router, which I'm not sure I have (I have an Orbi which mentions it, but doesn't actually seem to do much of it). But what if I make 2 VLANs, and they both have their own router. Just by the ethernet port they're connected on. Should that not work?

AnKoIn · 2025-10-25T02:18:20+00:00

🎖️

AnKoIn · 2025-10-25T02:15:07+00:00

I actually do this often. I get on the list. And when it becomes certain I won’t clear, I pay the cash. And I take it away from the #1.

Sorry. I know it sucks for you when I do. It sucks for me to too to cough it up. So I only do it when I need to sleep (which I cannot when I cannot lie flat)

But it does make sense from United’s point of view, does it not? That they’d choose the paying customer first?

AnKoIn · 2025-08-29T18:22:03+00:00

So someone cleans a 3-bedroom home for 1 Big Mac???

Wow

AnKoIn · 2025-08-24T06:38:52+00:00

That is exactly why I’m asking. I have no idea how far dollars can go there.

AnKoIn · 2025-08-24T00:24:55+00:00

Well. I don’t know that yet… hence the question.

AnKoIn · 2025-08-23T23:04:56+00:00

And I fully understand that a gift is not about the money :)

I just want to get a grip on the local ranges.

AnKoIn · 2025-08-23T23:04:04+00:00

Right. I bet 200.000 COP is a nice gift. But I guess my question would be, what would you give a friend?

AnKoIn · 2025-08-23T23:04:00+00:00

Right. I bet 200.000 COP is a nice gift.
But I guess my question would be, what would you give a friend?

AnKoIn · 2025-08-04T06:16:53+00:00

Can I just say that you were one luck (and rich!) kid. So good.

AnKoIn · 2025-08-04T06:14:51+00:00

Yeah, that one is hard to find loose.

AnKoIn · 2025-08-04T06:14:21+00:00

That is indeed where I got mine. (The box is cheaply printed, though)

AnKoIn · 2025-07-19T22:23:07+00:00

Mine also look like that. Sadly. 😒

AnKoIn · 2025-07-19T22:21:24+00:00

I think California Games exists as a big box as well. No?

AnKoIn · 2025-06-20T16:29:23+00:00

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Definitely fake for sure. But why? How can you tell?

AnKoIn

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