Mwaaaaaahhhaaaaa [pmsumner]

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I love Unix :)

As an example. Instead of having to copy and change all my settings from my Nix box, all I need do is log into 192.168.0.2 and export DISPLAY to whatever, and voila, any X-applications can be used as if they're on my local machine.

I should really set up DNS instead of IPs, but with 2 machines (well, 3 if you count the router) it's not really worth it.

Ooooo, this means I can run GAIM in Windows too!!! WHEEEEE! And not have to worry about logs on different machines. And I have IMAP set up so although right now I'm using Outlook Express for my mail, it doesn't actually matter what I use.

I'm so happy in a geeky way :))
*runs gaim in Windows XP and has a mini-orgasm*

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LOL! Of course you love Unix. We all do. :-) My preferred raving sub-topic in the "I love Unix" subject group is consoles and virtual screens. I mean, how do people live without them? On average, I have all six consoles, 8 virtual screens in WM and at least 5 tabs in my browser in permanent use.

And then I come to work and there's XP. *shudders*

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Virtual consoles and desktops are nice, but not essential. In fact, I have turned off virtual desktops because I just find them annoying.

Tabbed browsing is the best thing in the world, and I like Mozilla a lot better than IE now that I've been using it for a while. So much so, I run it remotely over the network :)

And WinXP isn't that bad! I don't know what everyone has against it. It's the best Windows product ever and does lots of good stuff :)

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Can't. Live. Without. Virtual. Desktops. ;-) Meh, it's a matter of taste I suppose.

Also, may I point out that comparing something to Microsoft products and then saying it's better really is not a statement of quality.

Final, purely aesthetic point: comapre XP to Windowmaker (or even fvwm 1!) and shudder! ;-)

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I'd say it's a pretty good measure of quality when something's the most versatile and easiest to use product around...

And you do know you can turn off all the widdly annoying graphics bits in WinXP to make it look like 9x/2000, don't you?

Bah, doesn't matter anyhow - a combination of both is definitely the best way to go.

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I know that you can make it look like 2k, but not how. Never bothered as I don't actually own and XP machine, only use one at work. Meh.

Don't want to start another Religious War (tm) here, but I'm genuinely intrigued and curious now: I've been using Linux and Amiga exclusively for years now, haven't had a Windows machine since 1999. So what exactly does one use Windows for?

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Windows is useful for me as there are times when you need to diagnose a problem with something and it's so much easier in Win, thanks to everything being designed and instructions written for it.

It also has the only decent money management software that I have found (MS Money), MS Word is a good word processor - better than StarOffice or kOffice or anything on Linux I've found.

It's also easier if you want to play with something. You any idea how long it took me to get Quake running in Linux? Hours. How long in Windows? The time to download the program and run the .exe file.

That's some reasons. There are more but this keyboard is pants...

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Fairy nuff. I play games on my PS2 and don't use word processors. In fact, I spent much of Sunday trying to wrestle Word into submission on my father's XP machine and decided that while there has been improvement since the last version I used regularly, it still sucks majorly. LaTeX is the way forward. :-)

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