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I'm sorry, last plug...

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:23 pm
by alex.barylski
But Ubuntu...WOW

I'm absolutely in love, head over heels...I'll be locked in a basement now for well over a month, no sunlight...minimal food...no phones ringing...oh man...

It's absolutely everything I ever wanted...minus the anti-aliased fonts and sound card not working...

I know this must sound like a blog, but I'm just so giddy with joy and having such a blast working with Ubuntu...I absolutely had to share...teeeheee :P

I seriously cannot believe all of what they offer is free and such a pleasure to install/remove...so much configuration at my fingertips...so much power and flexibility. Ubuntu lets me learn as I go, which is what I wanted...

I have a little weather icon in my system tray...and I'm installing some really cool little applications...totally geek stuff, not very practical, but...I absolutely love it...

On Windows I fret all the time that what I'm downloading is going to F up my registry or leave trails of debris when removed...that or you have hunt for days to find these little gems...not with Ubuntu...it's as easy as click and go...

I just wanted to share one more love story with you all...and I promise you've heard the last of it for a while...

Multiple desktops is such a nice features...I'm looking for a light weight power editor with the following:
1) Source folding
2) SVN integration
3) Advanced tabs settings
4) PHP/HTML/CSS syntax hilighting

Class management, etc...maybe works with JS too???

I'veplayed with Kate while using KDE and I loved that editor, but I also absolutely love Evolution...so I will likely stick with Gnome...I tried bluefish and gedit...both are nice, but no source folding :(

So many options...so little time...must get...downloading and experimenting :P

*droools all over tshirt and floor*

This is amazing and I am absolutely in awe of the developer talent this world has to offer and free yet :P I MUST start programming in wxWindows or GTK real soon...I want to build an document generator which uses HTML files and folders to construct a TOC enabled PDF file...I think that would be stellar cool yea???

OMG...OMG...I'm so excited...and I just can't hide it...dodododododod dodo dodo :P

I'm going now...bye bye :roll:

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:30 pm
by s.dot
Wow, I should try it out.

I thought about it before, but I didn't particularly like the name. Sounds african or foreign (does it have meaning?). But I shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:32 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
I tried Ubuntu, it's not too bad.

I <3 OSX :D

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:54 pm
by alex.barylski
scottayy wrote:Wow, I should try it out.

I thought about it before, but I didn't particularly like the name. Sounds african or foreign (does it have meaning?). But I shouldn't judge a book by its cover.
It is an African name I believe and I think it means "we" or "the community/people" or something to that effect. :P

It's trully been a pleasure to work with. If you a Windows user and your tired of the B$ with WGA or garbage software being installed when all you want is a simple tool, but instead you get the Yahoo toolbar, etc...

The Ubuntu IMHO (from what I can tell in all of one/two days) is the way to go...

It's awesome...so much configuration is not even funny...actually I lie...it is funny...and I'm giggling as we speak :P

tee hee

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:58 pm
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Ubuntu rocks - I dual boot it with Fedora. Ubuntu probably is used more for coding though in my case - easy to manage and play with.

A light weight power editor is almost a contradiction in terms :). I use Eclipse predominantly (it's definitely not lightweight) and gedit for quick editing (has at least syntax highlighting, and a few bells to boot). Maybe check the Code Editor topic in General Discussion for an overview of what's out there for Linux.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:01 pm
by feyd
I'm quite tired of moving your threads Hockey. Next up, I throw them out.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:47 pm
by alex.barylski
feyd wrote:I'm quite tired of moving your threads Hockey. Next up, I throw them out.
This isn't linux specific, nor is it anything technically related...I'm being general...disscussing a distro in very general terms...not asking how to setup accounts or how to Linux specific this or that...

Should I have compared it to Windows to make it more generic??? :P

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:58 am
by JayBird
d3ad1ysp0rk wrote:I tried Ubuntu, it's not too bad.

I <3 OSX :D
I'll go along with that sentiment!!

OS X DOES infact rule!!

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:41 am
by jamiel
Hockey -- Use Kate in Gnome, it won't shout at you .. I promise :)

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:28 am
by alex.barylski
jamiel wrote:Hockey -- Use Kate in Gnome, it won't shout at you .. I promise :)
Yea I just figured out I *could* use KATE under GNOME....I was originally under the impression that KDE and GNOME were sort of opposites of each other and not capable of sharing applications...

I'll have to sometime read up on what the differences are I guess :P

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:55 am
by Chris Corbyn
Hockey wrote:I was originally under the impression that KDE and GNOME were sort of opposites of each other and not capable of sharing applications...
Sort of true. Gnome can't run KDE apps by itself. It requires kdelibs (part of the KDE) to do it, but apart from that everything works hunky-dory. You'll notice the requirement of kdelibs when you fire up kate in Gnome since you'll have a KDE skin around the kate window.

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:29 pm
by alex.barylski
^^^ Ahhh....I figured thats what all that jazz and B$ was about :P

Using the package manager to download KATE and noticed all those kdelibs type files...

I'm trying to peice togather similarities and differences between how Linux works and Windows, as I understand Windows thoughroughly I figured it'll help my understanding of Linux. All I can say is there are more differences than similarities at this point of my understanding.

Linux feels like a Win3.1 but with a newage preemptive kernel and other bells and whistles of course...

It's really nice, minus the sound issues I'm currently experiencing and the anti-aliased fonts (supposedly you acn use TTF to minimize this blurryness?).

I think I may drop KATE in favour of another editor, but I need a GNOME editor which supports source folding but is still light weight...gEdit would be perfect if it support source folding and maybe built in FTP/SVN with PHP code browsing (atleast class browsing).

Meh...what are ya gonna do :)

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:20 pm
by nickvd
You may want to give Quanta a try... it's decent, it's a little buggy, (and crashes on me more often than it used to), but it's the best editor i've seen aside from the standard stuff (eclipse)