omg!

very good read imo

spread the hate!

And why would I want to go and do a thing like that.

Come on you Vista

Cheers
Tongy

Ubuntu is awesome.

If you dont care that fonts render like sh*t.

Nah Im good with XP thanks works fine for me!

Quote from: SamUbuntu is awesome.

Fonts render just as good, if not better than in Windows XP.

Fixed. :mrgreen:

Ya, the fonts are spectacular, and you have all sorts of fine grained ways to tweak the rendering that XP doesnt give ya.

Some fonts:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/114297120_1999f30b5e_o.jpg

Theyre not fixed skidzilla. They still look shocking. I spent an entire weekend once with those patches youve linked to and other things. Basically when I say fonts, I mean the entire GUI. The spaces between menu items is too big. The widgets just have too much padding.

I love linux but the GUI is truly awful.

Quote from: maximusotterYa, the fonts are spectacular, and you have all sorts of fine grained ways to tweak the rendering that XP doesnt give ya.

Some fonts:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/114297120_1999f30b5e_o.jpg

I mean look at that. Can anyone actually work on a system that is so bad ? I suppose its ok if you browse the web for an hour a day and listen to mp3s but my computer is my income and I cannot work on something so ugly.

Quote from: SamTheyre not fixed skidzilla. They still look shocking. I spent an entire weekend once with those patches youve linked to and other things. Basically when I say fonts, I mean the entire GUI. The spaces between menu items is too big. The widgets just have too much padding.

I love linux but the GUI is truly awful.

Now youre just making sh*t up, as you got caught with your pants down about the fonts--which have been spectacular for five years.

"The spaces between menu items is too big". Oh come ON--youre a funny guy! "The widgets have too much padding". Which widgets? GTK, QT, TK? Which ones? Give us an example.

As it is, youre just spreading FUD as youre too chicken to admit you were wrong about the fonts.

Quote from: Sam

Quote from: maximusotterYa, the fonts are spectacular, and you have all sorts of fine grained ways to tweak the rendering that XP doesnt give ya.

Some fonts:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/114297120_1999f30b5e_o.jpg

I mean look at that. Can anyone actually work on a system that is so bad ? I suppose its ok if you browse the web for an hour a day and listen to mp3s but my computer is my income and I cannot work on something so ugly.

Grasping at straws, you is.

Whats ugly about it? The colors? Then f**king change it. Stop acting like a defensive three year old caught in a lie. Those are my choices of neutral colors that are comfy for hours and hours of screen time.

And the alternative default is primary playskool colors?

i think sam should abandon computer work totally, he sounds more like a gay hairdresser so far in this thread... :shock:

Quote from: maximusotterNow youre just making sh*t up, as you got caught with your pants down about the fonts--which have been spectacular for five years.

Did I bollocks.

Quote"The spaces between menu items is too big". Oh come ON--youre a funny guy! "The widgets have too much padding". Which widgets? GTK, QT, TK? Which ones? Give us an example.

As it is, youre just spreading FUD as youre too chicken to admit you were wrong about the fonts.

Its ugly. There are 10,000 threads about it on forums around the world.

This is eclipse on gnome
http://klomp.org/mark/classpath/eclipse-gnome-gij.png

This is eclipse on XP
http://tmap.pmel.noaa.gov/~rhs/ebug/j2ee4.jpg
http://www.devbiz.com/teamplain/eclipse/images/screens/workitemeditor-win.gif

On the left hand side package explorer, you can get far more listings in XP. Thats just one example of how excess space leads to lack of productivity. Look at the menus on the gnome version - 12 pixels of white space between each one. Look at the ugly huge arrow instead of a

• when using a file explorer. Ugly.

Now I appreciate most people use the computer to browse porn and post sh*t on a forum, but I use mine to develop software and little things like this make linux less productive.

Ive tried many times to get a GUI configured how I like it but linux just looks ugly.

Sam has a point. Ive noticed that Linux likes to "oversize things", and yup its mildly annoying for me, when im just someone who uses programming ides for uni project work or faffing around, if I was using it on a daily basis... it would become a deciding factor im sure.

Quote from: M3ta7h3adSam has a point. Ive noticed that Linux likes to "oversize things"

Linux is a non-gui kernel. Till you guys can actually make a valid argument about a specific tool kit, Ill continue to point and at yall.