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Have you tried the latest Ubuntu?

• gcv 19y ago
  Sure. Two problems with it: 1. Still fairly bad video hardware support. I spent two hours helping a buddy set up a mid-range ATI card recently, and we couldn't get full acceleration to work. The configuration just plain sucked. 2. Fonts in the X environment are so ugly that I can't stare at an editor window full of code. Good fonts are rarely open-source. Ubuntu is nice, but it doesn't come close to the experience of opening a box, pushing the "on" button, and being able to start working right away.
  • utx00 19y ago
    1. fair enough. i can see how that could be a deal breaker. You probably know about the sad state of affairs with those vendors, and I guess reasons don't matter much if it doesn't work. all i can say is that it is improving. 2. it's not the fonts. check this out: http://ubuntutips.net/node/10 http://ubuntutips.net/node/10. in a nutshell, just put <match target="font"> <edit name="hintstyle"> <const>hintslight</const> </edit> <edit name="autohint"> <bool>true</bool></edit> <edit name="rgba"> <const>rgb</const></edit> <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> in your ~/.fonts.conf file. you won't believe your eyes. try it. :)
    • whatever 19y ago
      And this is why people like the mac. I can edit an XML file in emacs, I just don't want to have to figure out which file to edit and what to put in there.
      • utx00 19y ago
        here's one example that drove me up the wall: == swapping ctrl/caps lock == * on osx * http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~jfieber/osx/ http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~jfieber/osx/ -- i believe i ended up using ucontrol. * on ubuntu * go to System/Settings/Keyboard Preferences (xmodmap is still there if you're so inclined) also, off the top of my head, it was a pain to: 1. add widgets to the menubar (on ubuntu i just add it) 2. rsync backups to an openbsd server because of the hfs+ tags 3. changing the buttons in Mail.app -- they were horrible 4. shutting down spotlight (can't even remember that one) 5. verbose booting 6. and my personal favorite: getting a cd out of the player when the power is off. There are answers, I'm sure, to all these questions but you have to figure it out. -utx
        • whatever 19y ago
          Or go to the Keyboard system prefs and click on Modifier Keys.
          • utx00 19y ago
            i mean, exchange the behaviour of the caps lock key with that of the control key. ucontrol, and fkeys let you do that. both seem to be unmaitained though.
            • gcv 19y ago
              The Keyboard prefpane trivially lets you map the Caps Lock key to Control. I used that setup for a long time. Are you actually asking to keep Caps Lock around but map it to Control? I guess that really is tricky, but it never occurred to me as useful, because I never use Caps Lock, so I just happily have two Control keys.
        • brent 19y ago
          Is that url your page?
          • utx00 19y ago
            no. i just found that whilst looking for ucontrol. should have made that clearer.
    • gcv 19y ago
      Thanks, will definitely give it a shot.
    • kirubakaran 19y ago
      Wow I tried it and it looks great now! Thanks a lot!