Thursday, April 24, 2014

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] gui

 

Taste in English has many meanings. One is your personal preference.  Each person likes things a certain way. It could apply to fashion, home decorating or anything that you do. 

In computing some people like it simple. Others like it complicated. Some like it plain. Others like it pretty. That is what is meant by taste. By workflow it means how you like to work. Some people like to work on one screen, one desktop, full screen. Others may like two screens, one with the GUI and another with the terminal. A programmer may like it this way. Some with a large monitor may like lots of windows and virtual desktops open at once.

A person who keeps it simple may be okay with a minimal installation and LXDE or XFCE as their desktop environment. I like the most of everything. I have multiple monitors, multiple desktop environments installed, and use many virtual desktops and have lots open at once. I prefer KDE because it is the best for me to manage this type of environment. GNOME and its full screens drive me crazy (expression).

The distribution also comes into play because I use lots of applications not found in other distributions. All distros offer the basics, but only Ubuntu based systems offer everything and the ability to install extra applications from the internet and PPAs. In Fedora I have to make compromises and I don't like to compromise.

If you are having language difficulties then I suggest that you paste the content into Google Translate.

Roy


On Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:38:52 AM, "highskywhy@yahoo.de" <highskywhy@yahoo.de> wrote:
 


good morning
thank You for help.

> > what is the difference?
> >
> > the gui?
> >
> Yes. Ubuntu uses Unity, Xubuntu used XFCE (hence the X in the name) and
> Kubuntu uses KDE.
*
What is the difference or only the colors?

>
> > why is the gui important?
>
> Mostly a matter of personal taste and your individual workflow.
*

What is the meaning of "taste"?

Is there
openbox
lxde
xfce
gnome
kde

or more?

All 3 of
> the GUIs I've mentioned also do other things--like Windows, they have
> printer installation programs, networking configuration programs, and so
> on.
*
But I can do all with a terminal, isnt it?

>
> >
> > firefox or thunderbird or gimp
> > or gedit.
> >
> > using for files: mc.
> >
> > why is it important to use
> > SuSe oder Gentoo oder Ubuntu?
> >
> > Isn t it the same?
>
> Pretty much.
*

Sorry for stupid question.

What does mean pretty much?

Sometimes it sounds like party

democratic or republican.

First impression:
You can install any Linux and then
build like stones any software house the user likes
and
example

I download an Fedora programe compile it for Debian and use it with Debian.

Is this right?

I use FreeBSD at work, and my workflow is mostly terminals
> and browsers, so I could probably use just about anything.
*
I do something like this:
Terminals open and start gedit firefox and so on.

>
> Much of the time, people support a particular distribution just because of
> their personal taste.

*
Taste?

I'm not very familiar with SuSE, but Gentoo is liked
> by people who don't mind doing a lot of command line work and Ubuntu is
> liked by those who want something that they can just install and use.
> (That is an EXTREMELY generalized statement on my part, but generally,
> Gentoo requires some reading and configuring to get running smoothly and
> Ubuntu, in theory at least, is just install and use.
>
> --

Is FreeBSD a rolling distro?
Is FreeBSD Debian based?

Thank You very much.

Sophie



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