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I'm sick and tired of these "linux is ugly" comments
preacher:
When did people become so picky that if their browser didnt feature antialiased text, the entire gui was a P.O.S? Listen to yourself. The first thing you must realize is that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. What I see as beautiful has little bearing on what anyone else sees as beautiful. Check out my screenshots
http://www.badconnections.net/mandrakescreenshots/
Pantso:
<irony>Nice to see that you're all arguing about such an important and constructive matter</irony>
Look guys, every OS is beautiful in its own way, and whether you like it or not this issue is TOTALLY subjective! What I find appealing may be beautiful for another person and vice versa. Personally, I think that the Linux desktop environments are infinitely customizable and could look really beautiful and sleek AS LONG as you do some tweaking around. On the other hand, Aqua is REALLY BEAUTIFUL by default and takes TONS of tweaking. Oh, and before you jump to any conclusions, I've been using Linux for 7 years, since more or less KDE 1.0 and I'm still using KDE and GNOME in OS X!
[ February 10, 2003: Message edited by: Panos ]
shuiend:
Linux User would you have any clue on howto make your desktop to look like the aqua one. I am using kde3.0 and i went to look for that theme or whatever. I found the page here
All You can dl is the screenshot. I would like to know if you knew how to do it all. Especially the p0rn folder cause that was great. I am emailing the guy about it. His email happenes to be one of our own fuckmicrosoft.com ones to. So i wonder who he is on the forum? if he even posts
[ February 10, 2003: Message edited by: wild_jester / BOB ]
slave:
The style he's using is called "high performance liquid" and the icon set is a converted SNOW.E icon theme for OS X. I don't know where he got the icon set, but you can get high performance liquid from www.mosfet.org. As for the p0rn folder, that's just a link with a custom image. They're easy to make
As for the custom things like black border around the desktop text, and the prettier shadows under the menus, those are custom hacks now in CVS, they aren't in KDE 3 or even 3.1.
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by xinix:
Dear Linux User #5225982375:
It seems that you fail to understand that all those frustrated (lower case on purpose) bill gates' ass kissers, who bearly can click the mouse and only have brains to type a MSWord doc., can only feel good by puting down LINUX. They can't accept the fact that windoze is a failure, due to its lack of security and overwhealming flaws, and that Linux is a major threat to their slave-master.
Bad boy "billy" mesmerize them by puting a "smooth" desktop look; let me spank them by showing them what a beautiful desktop looks like:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fscreenshots.php3
All of us fans of Linux need to support each other despite our preferences towards any distro and combat the legion of M$ puppets.
--- End quote ---
Ouch, harsh words. But I think you've taken my name wong (maybe I should change it back to Mac Commando) however, I hate windows. I like Linux, it is really fast, powerful, etc, etc. But I just can't take X11 and its GUI system. They all seem to be just Windows copies, with the addition of a desktop switcher. I don't know about you, but one of the reasons I hate windows is its interface, so copying it doesn't work for me. I want to learn linux, I actually am for server purposes, but one of the things stopping me from learning it from a desktop standpoint is that the graphics and UI are very inconsistant, especially when dealing with Software that doesn't come from your distro. I think I will be ready to completely switch when WINE works 100% perfect. That will be the day I would enjoy erasing shit off of my computer. I do like Linux, I like the command line, I like how everything (before the gui comes in ) makes perfect sense and works. I have just been spoiled from my Mac because it use Unix, so I get all the stuff I listed above that I like, it is Mac so it is also easy, unlike some things that I could tell you about with my past experiences with Linux, and it has a nice Aqua interface with a modern X Server. I have heard that there is development for a new X Windowing system on linux, i hope so because X11 is just aging.
Also in response to every screenshost I saw or have seen on my own accord, none of them looked very good (at least to me) and none of them had an innovative (un windows) UI system.
I can't wait for 8.1, I will download it right when the release it.
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