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that's my primary reason for using GNOME rather than KDE

I use Xfwm4. It goes with everything - well, almost everything. aMsn and KTorrent still stick out, but it's manageable.

Did you know xterm has 3 menus?

I use Xfce's default Terminal app, but now that I finally know where you can change Xterm's font (great design, guys!), maybe I'll give it a try.

ETA: wait, no font options. I'll stick with what I have, then.

I use blackbox - no desktop environment at all.

You use slack, you're barely entitled to an opinion

I used to sue BBLean on my Windows install. Blackbox is a bit too barren for my tastes, though.

RTFM

For a terminal emulator? The simplest application next to a text editor? Are you mad?

On the gtk file dialog, I might have an old version, so this might be outdated (updating gtk has been a super hassle to me every time I try, unlike qt might I add, which is just beautiful), but what I hate about it is many things:

Hmm...Thunar uses GTK and it's pretty fast, you can enable a standard addres sbar in the options menu and...well, I only use tab completion in the terminal, really.

Without trawling through and finding where the topic changed to *nix distro's... Was at university earlier this year and noticed that of the four main computer labs in the computer science building (last year: 2 were Apple G5 iMac's of two different batch orders and two labs of Dell pc's, also of two different batch orders,, they upgrade two labs a year and pass the oldest labs equipment on to some other school). This year one of the Dell labs had been replaced with iMac's bootcamped to windows... I'm not sure what to make of this.

Ironically 4 years ago when I got my iPod the university computer store/Apple retailer (which went out of business that year) said that the university was phasing out macs...

As for the argument about iPods and trend setting.. I own (broken due to age and heavy use) an old Gen 3 iPod which I got a month and a half after that generation was released. I was after a portable hard drive and interested in an mp3 player... of which the ONLY real choice was the iPod... mine died a little over a year ago and just after the iPod nanos were released someone asked me whether I was going to get one "as all the cool people were getting iPods" they had a strange look on their face when I fell over laughing... hehe in this case I probably helped, albeit inadvertently, set the trend.

The_Saint wrote:Without trawling through and finding where the topic changed to *nix distro's... Was at university earlier this year and noticed that of the four main computer labs in the computer science building (last year: 2 were Apple G5 iMac's of two different batch orders and two labs of Dell pc's, also of two different batch orders,, they upgrade two labs a year and pass the oldest labs equipment on to some other school). This year one of the Dell labs had been replaced with iMac's bootcamped to windows... I'm not sure what to make of this.

My old school was headed the same way when I left. The iMacs are an all-in-one package, easy to set up and a very good deal for the retail price. The education discounts make them even more appealing.

iMacs make a whole hell of a lot of sense as lab machines just from a hardware perspective. Schools just end up replacing everything anyway. They don't just order new towers from Dell and attach them to the old LCDs. They order entirely new systems. So if they're replacing the whole deal anyway, why not just go with an all-in-one system? They're easier to physically secure, take less set-up work and cost less to ship.

Even if Windows ends up on the machines and sullies their elegance, it's still an attractive proposition.