On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 Q u a s i wrote :

At 04:47 even 9/4/02 +0530, TH wrote:

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On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 15:05:35 +0530 Q u a s i quasar@vsnl.net wrote:

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I still trip on winamp+tripex3 and surf the net with IE.

(X-windows suxx majorly.)

Hold it, hold it. Circa June 2000, my Gnome + Enlightenment desktop was a showcase that caused many a dropped jaws. I can any day say without hesitation that Gnome (haven't used KDE) is ages ahead of MS

We dont agree. I have had X all the time past 6 years. But I have always found it be a substandard, and a rather ad-hoc GUI. The need to keep it generic and portable has made the X architecture excessively slow. They are bring in (supposedly) cool things like DRI etc. we shall see... I have used Gnome (Xamian & otherwise) and it has definitely come a long way but it lacks smoothness and that crisp feel. First time I installed enlightenment and the bluesteel theme even my jaw dropped to the floor. But enlightenment has eye candy but is bulky and slack & I dont like nor need all those frills while working. Sawfish is fast but still not smooth enough. IceWM & FVWM2 were the best I have used. Windows 98SE is *way* faster and smoother and crispier (talking about the GUI only) especially when you take away the web integration. In the past 2 years I am using it I have got the arbit blue screen only 4 or 5 times. And I have hung my xserver as many times too. Whatever you use, you have to tweak it for better performance, aint it so dear Sir? We can all equally say {quote}"I'm sorry, you probably never tried to go beyond the default settings of your window manager."{/quote}

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Starting from XP onwards this will change. MS GUI will be more idiot-friendly. Win98 SE is longer officially supported. Besides that is your copy legal?

-Ah.