Nameless Voice on 17/10/2009 at 11:51
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Like say you have 50 Firefox instances open along with 30 notepad documents, and you only want to select some random Firefox window. If Firefox is your currently active window and you hit ctrl+ect, it'll only sort through those and none else.
I think someone has sorely missed the point of tabbed browsing and multi-document program interfaces.
That's called Ctrl+Tab. It works in almost every MDI program apart from MS Word.
Kolya on 17/10/2009 at 12:08
I used an alt-tab replacement for a while (not that one, but it had the same snazzy features). Well in the end I disabled all those snazzy features, because all I really wanted and needed was a line next to the instance saying what it was. And then I uninstalled the whole thing because, really, do you want to constantly run a program in the background, just for that? Waste of resources. v:erg:v
smallfry on 17/10/2009 at 17:12
Quote Posted by raevol
Music Player: Songbird - Not great, but better than anything else for linux media library-wise. I miss winamp so much.
You don't like (
http://amarok.kde.org/) Amarok??
Renzatic on 17/10/2009 at 17:43
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I think someone has sorely missed the point of tabbed browsing and multi-document program interfaces.
You'd be amazed. I have a friend who does exactly what I mentioned above. At any given time, he'll have at least 20 Firefox/IE windows open alongside an assortment of other programs. The reason? He just doesn't like tabs. Says they're too hard to keep track of.
Quote Posted by Koyla
I used an alt-tab replacement for a while (not that one, but it had the same snazzy features). Well in the end I disabled all those snazzy features, because all I really wanted and needed was a line next to the instance saying what it was. And then I uninstalled the whole thing because, really, do you want to constantly run a program in the background, just for that? Waste of resources.
For me, the simple fact I can keep it floating without having a finger on the alt key is worth the 2.5 meg deficit. Yeah, it's a little thing, but like my friend above, we've all got our weird preferences.
june gloom on 17/10/2009 at 19:27
Quote Posted by Renzatic
You'd be amazed. I have a friend who does exactly what I mentioned above. At any given time, he'll have at least 20 Firefox/IE windows open alongside an assortment of other programs. The reason? He just doesn't like tabs. Says they're too hard to keep track of.
I'm with him on that. Fuck tabs. I use alt+tab to get around a lot and muscle memory is a bitch.
Renzatic on 17/10/2009 at 19:37
And I'll say the same thing to you I said to him.
THEY'RE RIGHT THERE! JUST LOOK UP...AND WOW!
Quote Posted by raevol
Virtual Machine: Virtualbox - Running windows 2000 (that's right) for when I want to play Diablo2 or something.
Why not just use Wine? Most older games run great on it nowadays, and you don't have to take the time booting up into a virtualized OS just to play a game.
raevol on 18/10/2009 at 08:39
God no. It's so bloated, and the library interface makes me cry. Songbird is bloated as well, but at leas the library interface is almost usable. Someone really just needs to make an exact copy of winamp for linux.
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Why not just use Wine? Most older games run great on it nowadays, and you don't have to take the time booting up into a virtualized OS just to play a game.
Wine is terribad. TERRIBAD. It simply does not work.
Plus think about it: Wine is trying to reverse engineer an entire operating system worth of code. A poorly built, bloated operating system. A VM just has to emulate hardware. As long as the hardware is emulated correctly (a trivial task compared to reverse engineering windows) everything runs fine. The room for error is ridiculously smaller.
And again, Wine simply does not work.
Renzatic on 18/10/2009 at 18:08
Wuh? That makes no sense. Every piece of VM software out there only offers rudimentary OpenGL support at best. I couldn't even get basic desktop compositing working inside of Virtualbox, let alone any games or software made post 2000 that use the graphics card to any extent. They're great for compatibility testing across multiple platforms or just test driving an OS, but for actual use, they're nowhere near as good as having the real thing installed properly.
And Wine? Sure, "it's trying to reverse engineer a bloated OS", but it's only focusing on a small part of that OS. Just a select set of dll files in a controlled environment that only takes up a fraction of the space a virtualized copy of Win2000 with dedicated HDD space would. Plus, since it runs on your actual hardware and not an emulated set of generic stuff, you don't have to worry about performance issues...when it works. And yeah, it does work on more than rare occasions. I haven't run any of the latest and greatest high end games on it. But I've seen it run Plants Vs. Zombies, Gothic 1 & 2, Painkiller, Zuma, and Planescape running on it just fine.
I know alot of the hardcore Linux geeks hate it because it's not running software natively with the OS. Hell, I almost agree. Native would mean less hassle and a near 100% guarantee whatever I'm trying to run will actually run error free. But if you really want to get some more modern games running inside Xubuntu, and absolutely refuse to install any Windows OS, it's a far more elegant solution than going the VM route.
TAIMAT on 18/10/2009 at 19:01
AIMP for audio playing .... VirtualDUB for all my Video Editing ... Super 2009 for all Media converting ... notepad++ text/hex edit ... FDM as Download manager .. OPERA my browser/irc/feeds 4ever .... online armor free firewall ... avira antivir free ... comicsviewer for my manga/comics reading ... xnview for my photo view/simple edit .... corel photo-paint X4 professional image edit ... total commander file manager ... true crypt hide my stuff ... still searching a better video/dvd player (GOM & KMP are buggy sometimes) ... virtualpc for some winme old apps ....
Sulphur on 18/10/2009 at 19:03
Good grief. I almost reported this entire thread
