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my new job gave me a Linux desktop and a MacBook Pro. I spent some time trying to make it work so that I could use the mac as a front end. eventually I had to give that up and surrender to the lovely Linux desktop. it's been about 10 years since I used a Linux desktop environment seriously and it is still just as awful as I remember it. within 5 minutes I was already editing text configuration files just to try to make it more usable. besides the garbage rendering engine and display lag and general ugliness of it all, there are still some basic loving things that they haven't fixed this whole time. mind boggling. can't use natural scrolling mode on mouse wheel. like, that isn't even an option. I used some loving command line utility with an init script to remap the buttons on my mouse. now it works fine except in some gnome windows, because who the gently caress knows why. my desktop background crashed. yes, that's right. at some point during the day my desktop background disappeared and was replaced by some lovely default image. the gnome background setting was unable to set a new background. it literally stopped being able to set the background image. Control-c/v for copy and paste. great idea on a unix machine, assholes. why can't I use this useless meta key that's on every loving keyboard and has a stupid windows logo on it? it doesn't work in terminal (control shift C), or at all in gvim. Spent time inputting arcane codes into rc files to enable gvim to have usable copy and paste. except after /, apparently that doesn't work. speaking of terminal Control+n and control+t are standard shortcuts for new windows and tabs. except in some apps they don't work. notably terminal because gently caress you, that's why. alt+f4 to close a window? what the gently caress. this is the dumbest thing on windows, why copy that? selecting shutdown from the gnome menu logs me out instead of, you know, shutting down. hitting a key to disable the screen saver and bring up the password prompt enters that key into the prompt. even if it's the escape key somehow. this was all over the span of maybe 4 hours. gently caress, Linux desktop is a piece of poo poo
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i reinstalled linus for my os class and the right side of my desktop flickers a solid black bar when i move a window too close to the edge sometimes. sure i could figure it out or reinstall but 
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Jul 22, 2017 17:11
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agreed but i really want to know who hurt to you to the point where 'natural scrolling' on a scroll wheel is your preferred option. hosed up if true
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Jul 22, 2017 17:21
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typing in the password immediately is good
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Jul 22, 2017 17:25
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just use the terminal op
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Jul 22, 2017 17:27
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just use windows like a normal person
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Jul 22, 2017 17:51
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if you suck this much at using a computer, why the hell are you in yospos
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Jul 22, 2017 17:57
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gnome 3 is poop from a butt why did you use gnome if you expected to customize anything? the whole point of the project is that there is exactly one correct way to use gnome, and configuration knobs are for greybeards
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Jul 22, 2017 18:01
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:configuration knobs are for greybeards
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Jul 22, 2017 18:14
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the default terninal doesnt support splits lol
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Jul 22, 2017 18:16
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op I have a macbook and a linux VM on the macbook best workflow for me is to use X11-forwarding to start xfce4-terminal on the VM and display it on OSX, and then I can start other windows and stuff from there
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Jul 22, 2017 18:21
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just ssh into your linux server op
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Jul 22, 2017 18:27
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Everything seems to 'just werk' better on my Ubuntu Mate laptop than my Win 10 laptop. I like it very much and prefer it over everything except Mac I guess Edit: were you trying to use one of those low userbase nerd distros?
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Jul 22, 2017 19:14
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:the default terninal doesnt support splits lol just use tmux m8
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Jul 22, 2017 19:23
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mishaq posted:just ssh into your linux server op or this
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Jul 22, 2017 19:24
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You seem very tense.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:09
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good points everyone, especially about me sucking. but the fact remains that Linux desktop is full on garbage and all of these suggestions are workarounds. I went with the corporate standard desktop, didn't want to be a special snowflake. it's some ubuntu gnome whatever garbage. I didn't choose any of this.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:20
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The Management posted:good points everyone, especially about me sucking. but the fact remains that Linux desktop is full on garbage and all of these suggestions are workarounds. just install kali and load all the hacking tools and use them to steal all the money you need so you don't need to work any more ez pz
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Jul 22, 2017 20:31
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your demands are incoherent OP, maybe you should code your own desktop (so people can say it sucks)
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Jul 22, 2017 20:32
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The Management posted:my desktop background crashed. yes, that's right. at some point during the day my desktop background disappeared and was replaced by some lovely default image. the gnome background setting was unable to set a new background. it literally stopped being able to set the background image. I remember Windows ME doing this like every 3rd time you powered the computer on, with a big "Desktop Recovery" button or some poo poo that all it did wsa put the image back.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:35
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gnome has way too many concessions to windows., i agree. with your terminal thing, ctrl-n and ctrl-t are probably sending whatever those commands are to the terminal, with gnome-terminal it's probably ctrl shift n/t dont forget to try enabling emacs keybinds so you die from confusion
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Jul 22, 2017 20:57
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lol if you use a screensaver
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Jul 22, 2017 21:02
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lol, just lol if you lol
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Jul 22, 2017 21:22
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go hardcore neckbeard and make a custom hentai cyberpunk theme for your tiling wm of choice or don't try to use a server os on the loving desktop hth
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Jul 22, 2017 22:05
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Maximum Leader posted:don't try to use a server os on the loving desktop hth I can't stress this enough. alas, I have no better options at the moment.
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Jul 22, 2017 22:39
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The Management posted:my new job gave me a Linux desktop and a MacBook Pro. I spent some time trying to make it work so that I could use the mac as a front end. eventually I had to give that up and surrender to the lovely Linux desktop. hosed up op
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Jul 22, 2017 23:46
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i think you're holding it wrong op
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Jul 22, 2017 23:52
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natural scrolling with a mouse wheel is like a non-inverted mouse in an fps: it's backwards and weird and makes no sense
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Jul 23, 2017 01:16
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I use awesome wm which means I have to spend literal days debugging my configuration files and every update breaks it. But I look sick nasty popping terms all over the place then using tmux to make it a even more cluttered and worthless. What I am saying op is that I totes would pos ur neg gnome hole with my custom tailored arch system.
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Jul 23, 2017 01:45
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switch to wmii
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Jul 23, 2017 01:46
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Silver Alicorn posted:switch to OS X
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Jul 23, 2017 02:03
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didnt read rated five based on title and personal experience
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Jul 23, 2017 02:05
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Sorry your using Gnome, Bad desktop environment. Try xfce, just don't use thunar to connect to network shares and you'll be alright.
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Jul 23, 2017 11:57
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what’s the best spergy twm, I wanna outnerd my colleagues
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Jul 23, 2017 12:42
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:what’s the best spergy twm, I wanna outnerd my colleagues stumpwm just compiling it requires reading docs
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Jul 23, 2017 12:45
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preaching to the choir op Linux on the desktop efforts should have stopped right after about osx 10.4. waste of man-hours we have the best *nix desktop ever devised
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Jul 23, 2017 12:51
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:what’s the best spergy twm, I wanna outnerd my colleagues the spergiest spergs write their own
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Jul 23, 2017 14:11
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quit your job op
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Jul 23, 2017 14:17
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The Management posted:Control-c/v for copy and paste. great idea on a unix machine, assholes. why can't I use this useless meta key that's on every loving keyboard and has a stupid windows logo on it? because the meta key wasn't ubiquitous until the late 90s and if programs tied vital shortcuts to it nerds clacking away on 30 year old model m keyboards would bitch endlessly. blame ibm for not making it standard even though it existed on other designs back in the early 80s. you can go into settings->keyboard and change the global quit command to something like alt+q that mimics the mac though
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Use KDE OP also there is no the Linux desktop
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