Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

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From: Juerd
Subject: Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)
Date: 13:10 on 17 Oct 2005
Peter da Silva skribis 2005-10-17  6:38 (-0500):
> It's software.
> What did you fucking expect?

It to suck less than Linux+KDE.

> But if you want Unicode to Just Work, it's your best option by far.

Except that Terminal.app came configured to use iso-8859-1 by default,
and the default fonts seem to be very limited in the number of glyphs
they can display correctly. 

I have this feeling -again- that you haven't seriously given recent
Linux distributions a serious try and chance.

> Darwinports or Fink.

I'm lazy. I've tried these, though, out of desperation. They sucked in
interesting ways, and a lot of software that I wanted wasn't available
through them.

I've never liked ports systems because I am as impatient as I am lazy.

> As for KDE... personally, I prefer Windowmaker, and I detest both
> KDE and Gnome, but I'll readily admit that there are things I miss
> about traditional UNIX windowing environments.

The only problem I have with KDE is that its default installation is
extremely bloated. (And, but this is true for almost all open source
software, that its Dutch translations are stupid.)

I think Kubuntu did a good job cutting much of the crap away from KDE
and cleaning up some interfaces, for example Konqueror's.

> But having shit Just Work instead of having to go through an Amish
> Barn Raising every time I install a new application (and if you try
> and tell me ANY package manager on Linux is going to change that I'll
> laugh) is worth having to *run an application to burn CDs*.

I like making people laugh. Just to make your day: try Debian's dpkg/apt
system! You'll LOVE it!

The only weird technological dance that I had to do to make X work well
on my Mac mini's brand new Kubuntu installation was to set the refresh
rate to the weird value that my monitor wants. But this is hardware hate
mostly, though it would have been very nice if Kubuntu just asked me
during installation.

At least Kubuntu got the resolution right, while OS X decided that
1024x768 would be good enough for me, as a default.

> And Linux sure as hell isn't going to scratch my UFS itch with its
> filesystem-of-the-week and none-of-them-support-dump dance.

Most Linux distributions have defaulted to ext2 (now ext3, which is ext2
plus a journal) for ages. What is this filesystem-of-the-week thing you
mention? Ext2-and-3-do-support-dump.


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