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I went to Mac Store to drool over Retina display MacBook Pro and toyed around with OS X as necessary. Formerly when I used KDE, OS X always seemed miraculously intuitive and well thought out desktop, but now after spenging weeks with GNOME 3 it no longer had that kind of effect. I founf myself confused and wondering about some of the simplest things: how do I start launch, what button to press to see all applications and why the open windows do not snap to side of the screen. While GNOME3 took tons of design cues from OS X, I have to admit their team managed to produce something better. In OS X you have to press separate buttons (or button combinations) for search, to view open windows and to manage virtual desktops ("Spaces"). In GNOME3 all those functions are behind single button push and at a glance. Sure GNOME3 has it's fair share of weird design decisions, but I'm rather certain they will be fixed in near future. For example, when maximizing window, the title bar remains there for no good reason. However, this can be fixed by adding one argument and modifying other. The functionality is there, so just a matter of time before someone implements graphical way to setup it, possibly at some point this will be default. At least it should be!

As a former KDE fanatic/evangelist I am not pained at all to admit that the KDE SC project isn't really going nowhere, but for GNOME3 things are different. In fact, should someone make a cool looking computer with stable BSD or Linux system with GNOME3 running on it coupled with stable API & ABI and good font rendering (all three something unheard of in linux distros), I have no doubts about its success. Hell, for iMac look-alike running system like that with better expandability and GNOME3, I'd be willing to shell out more money than for a iMac. That's how good GNOME 3 really is. And I'm still running version 3.2, while the latest is 3.4.

2013 Year Of Linux Desktop - I want to believe.

After taking a testdrive with Mageia (unpolished beta mess) & Windows 7 (too slow for mah lappy) in order to get rid of my 4 year old XP Pro install for good (it had three rootkits gg), I yielded once again and returned to the distro which I have deep love/hate relationship: openSUSE. This time instead of spending days to configure KDE (horrible mess), I decided to give a spin to GNOME 3 again. GNOME 3.0 was utter shit and completely unusable, but I've heard good about latter iterations marked as "stable", openSUSE 12.1 coming with GNOME 3.2. After installing from live USB-stick and so forth I was greeted with nice desktop where everything kinda just worked. Then I took a deeper look.

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我安装linux了再opensuse的。我不喜欢debian和ubuntu，因为它们不运转的正确。一直许多问题了！我有GNOME3那很好，很快也稳定。现在我要喝啤酒和看第七集死神少女！

ps. 为什么de也di是地吗？

Otherwise excellent but I have no clue how to enable hanzi or kanji inputs in KDE. IBus installed, daemon running, it's in tray and... does nothing. Fuu fuu, I has maddening's. Then again I've used this for almost three days and started to miss that feature when I had something in mind to blog about this morning - zuotian wo pengyou de shengri!

Anyways, 4,5/5 distro this time. Extremely stable and fast KDE, almost as fast as Chakra. Bonus points for custom start menu which doesn't drive even immortal ninjas insane like the standard Kickstart tends to do. The only missing must-have applications from repositories are IDLE and Handbrake. Yayifications for Opera is there! Connecting to hidden wlan is bit of a hassle and figuring out how & where to enable additional repositories is retarded ordeal. As usual, the default KDE looks absolutely horrible with it's Oxygen theme, but just add Plastic and disable half of eyecandy and it's good to go. Biggest fuck-up was omittance of al locales except english in english installation, meaning no åäö let alone hanzi display ability. Those packages take almost 10Mb space, so devs would have to cut down on rice... maybe even leave out Bouncing Ball plasmoid, ohmigosh impossibru.

Recommended warmly despite shortcomings.

PS: linux fonts are still shit

EDIT: after some more dicking around with this the conclusion is clear: it's just a normal Linux distro. While KDE is stable, it has more graphic glitches than Skyrim - business as usual. Furthermore, the drakconnect is a piece of shit and in Lord's year 2012 Mageia devs still think having a automatic user handling of network connections is a bad idea. Making NetworkManager work was fucking effort, but hey I made it. Remember when I've said time after time again that Linux in principle is badly designed (well my IRL aquintances should at least)? Whoopee, when I was scratching my ballsacks off trying to figure out how to make Opera scroll normal amount of lines with ease mousewheel scroll, I stumbled upon this. "Xorg doesn't actually know how to scroll at all, and is just passing scroll button presses down to the applications... which would mean that each application has to deal with its own implementation, and there is no one place to change this. Bleh. -- Ugh. I have a sick feeling that one day this thread is going to come back and haunt the Linux community when someone uses it in a Windows vs. Linux debate. "In Windows, you just go into Mouse Properties. Look what *this* guy had to do!""Really now? Well I had my bit of fanboyism some 8 years ago when it was valid to claim that Linux indeed is better than Windows, I mean XP before SP2 was a piece of shit. Funny how Linux still uses core tech 30 years old like X11 and fanbois think their system is superiour to recent Windows iterations tech-wise. PROTIP: it isn't. These systems are fucking horrible for daily use! Doesn't help that Canonical went full-retard. Next time you code something, make sure you get paid, because contributing to FOSS doesn't really pay off.

3/5 distro
You have Windows 7 licence? Stick with it.

Voi veljet voi veljet, mistä sitä aloittaisi! Tätä elokuvaa on odotettu kuin nousevaa kuuta viimeisen vuoden päivät, ja tänään se sitten ilmestyi Commien teksteillä varustettuna. Suurimmat pelot ennen julkaisua liittyivät Warner Brosin mukana oloon: tehdäänkö tästä alkuperäisestä Kentaro Miuran synkästä klassikkomangasta poiketen perheystävällinen amerikkalaiseen makuun sovitettu höttö, joka korostaa ihanasti kristillisiä perhearvoja, jossa veren ja alastomuuden määrä väännetään minimiin PG13 ikäraja ahneissa silmissä kiiluen, jotta saataisiin uusi kokoperheen summer blockbuster jonka lopussa kaikki pitävät toisiaan kädestä lentotukialuksen kannella laulaen yhdysvaltain kansallishymniä hyviksien pommittaessa pahoja terroristeja. Kävikö niinkuin pelkäsin? Onneksi ei.

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