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General Software Discussion / Re: Who should judge Win7's success?
« on: October 23, 2009, 10:15 AM »
Damn. One less reason.
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The Classic Start Menu can most likely be replaced by third party applications.Shareware though.-Curt (October 22, 2009, 05:02 AM)
ClearType cannot be turned off entirely in order for the user interface font"It's not a bug, it's a feature"? Awful on better resolutions.
Classic Start menuThe reason for me not to install Windows 7.
personally I don't see $75USD value in itAt least you got my point here.
And truly multiplatform.Java is just as multiplatform as C/C++. No libs, no execution.-urlwolf (October 20, 2009, 10:16 AM)
I haven't had to touch a single config file since moving to jedit. With vim, I was tweaking my vimrc every day.I haven't touched my vimrc for weeks now. But I could tweak it a lot more, that's the point.-urlwolf (October 20, 2009, 10:16 AM)
There's nothing unusual, nothing out of place about the FireFox UI.Depends. You can turn off the menu bar (not "usual" on Windows), you can place everything anywhere (same), and "native" skins are supported since v3, before they were quite... well... "unusual".-tranglos (October 20, 2009, 08:10 AM)
Ubuntu is an easier to use version of Debian."Stripped down" doesn't necessarily imply "easier to use".-Innuendo (October 19, 2009, 12:20 PM)
1 - Because newbies want to start the computer, get their mp3s from their windows machine and listen to them right away.All necessary software can easily be installed during the Debian installation process. What's wrong with that?
2 - Because newbies want to start the computer, insert a divx and see it right away.
3 - Because newbies want to start their computer, open a window and have the desktop effects right away (even if they have an nvidia graphics card).-jgpaiva (October 19, 2009, 12:21 PM)
Which toolbars?I was talking about UE this time ...-f0dder (October 19, 2009, 11:03 AM)
Standard install of gvim vs standard install of Notepad++You can easily make N++ bloated by using too many plug-ins. You can easily keep your Vim tiny and fast by setting the right options (no colors, vi compatibility and stuff). I must confess, however, that I don't have any benchmarks about that. But I'm sure that Vim is the fastest might-be-used-as-an-IDE editor out there.-f0dder (October 19, 2009, 10:24 AM)
it's not the end-all-be-all perfect tool for everybody.If there was such a thing, no-one would need any other editor, right? That's the great thing about perfectness: There is always a thing that comes closer to it.-f0dder (October 19, 2009, 10:24 AM)
it loads slower than Notepad++Depends on your configuration.-f0dder (October 19, 2009, 01:32 AM)
but I always forget the keystrokes"ci}", "change inner }-block". Easier to understand than some weird Alt-Arrow-Metakey-Whirl-around-and-sing hotkeys.-f0dder (October 19, 2009, 01:32 AM)
Handle huge files efficiently?Works. (Depending on your definition of "huge", but you should figure out first what a "text editor" is intended to do for you.)-f0dder (October 18, 2009, 05:35 PM)
At what cost, though? Between spending $20 on a text editor and 2 years on figuring out the basics of (g)vi(m), I'n not even hesitatingA steep learning curve is common to most today's text editors. But Vim has a tutorial for that. Built-in.-tranglos (October 18, 2009, 06:15 PM)
There's something to be said for Shift+nav keys selection!Discard the "Shift" key thing, and you'll have the Visual Mode.-tranglos (October 18, 2009, 06:15 PM)
then one would be sing vi as a more-or-less standard Windows editorNothing wrong with that.-tranglos (October 18, 2009, 06:15 PM)
And for that, TextPad et al are better, because they are "more standard", if you will.A "standard" is the standard you define. Some say Office 2007 is a standard, too.-tranglos (October 18, 2009, 06:15 PM)
My only real beef with the program is its pricing structure, though.A lifetime license wouldn't solve the problems either, would it?-Innuendo (October 18, 2009, 12:13 PM)
he finally hit a wall where he was running into problems that were beyond his programming abilities.Now this is one of the reasons I haven't developed my own file manager yet...-Innuendo (October 18, 2009, 12:13 PM)
Your work habits just may not be well-suited at all to the new way of doing thingsI would rather say, the "new way of doing things" does not fit anyone's actual work habits, eh?-Innuendo (October 17, 2009, 11:07 PM)
I'll be very interested to see what third-party solutions come out to address the needs of people like you.At least some people know how to make money with Microsoft's mistakes.-Innuendo (October 17, 2009, 11:07 PM)