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  • #16
    Well, I can think of a few improvements to the current OS's out there that I think I NEED to have.

    Firstly would be a "Start" menu (or whatever you'd like to call it, depending on your OS) that will pop up with a mouse-click (Enlightenment had this, and I loved it. And with Triple-Head/Dual-Head setups it would be INVALUABLE).

    Secondly, perhaps the ability to have two pointer devices set up. (As I said in another thread on here, Surround Mousing!)

    Definetly a zip/gzip/rar/ace/lzh/arc/msa/dms etc. (I know I probably forgot a few...) program that built-in to the operating system.

    A proper handling of Temporary files. Which by the way Windows XP STILL has not fixed!!! (quick example, back in the days of Win95, a friend was complaining that he had no disk space, yet he didn't have much besides the OS installed. I told him that perhaps the Windows\Temp directory wasn't emptied properly, since I had had that problem before. Well he looked in there and on his 2.1gb harddrive, he had 500mb worth of "Temporary" files. After deleting them, he had an extra 650mb free! There's the wonder of the first version of Fat32 for ya!)

    I agree with the thought above, native support for burning to CD-R/CD-RW's. Which XP has... but it SUCKS. It does NOT use the standard ISO9660 nor even UDF. CDFS... Bleh.

    After using Triple-head, I think it would be hard going back to a single monitor, that's for sure. But as stated above, having to travel all the way across three screens to use the start menu is kind of a pain. (Anyone remember the keyboard shortcut to do this under Gnome? I know there is one, just can't recall what it is )

    Anyhow, enough ranting

    Leech
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    • #17
      Originally posted by gt40
      Dual monitors are a must now that I've tried it.
      I like the multiple workspaces in Linux, but alas some of my software is only available for winblows.
      Opera rocks!
      and as belwarrior stated - a cup of espresso in the morning, and a cold beer at night.
      Litestep

      I'm curently using 18 virtual workspaces

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      Software that I just need.....

      Litestep
      Mozilla
      mIRC
      MBM
      Winamp
      Texturizer
      Dopus

      after that there are still tons of stuff that I use randomly
      If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

      Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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      • #18
        wheel mouse is neat... a mini-trackball instead of the wheel would be much much neater.

        how bout putting up a standard for bootable cd which doesn't involve pretending it's a floppy drive :/ ... or at least partitionable cd's for all those hardware ebd's and utility diskettes.

        never had much luck with beer and pc's but an espresso-cooled processor/graphics card sounds like a winner to me (just add coffee beans and water occasionally), .... I hate when my processors get hot and the coffee gets cold. Think we could get one of those itty-bitty cups into a half-height drive bay?
        CuV4x, 512MB, G400DH16

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        • #19
          Glad you guys brought up the decent zip/unzip program(s). Apple's reliance on the piece of crap software that is known as Stuffit annoys me to no end. Futhermore the software actually costs money!!! Thank god OS X has unix tools so I can at least use nice command line tools.
          Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
          Motion Computing M1400 -- Tablet PC, Ubuntu Linux

          "if I said you had a beautiful body would you take your pants off and dance around a bit?" --Zapp Brannigan

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          • #20
            leech, Liteshell could be a good substitute of start menu on all screens for you, when running along with explorer or other shell.

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            • #21
              Best mouse: Logitech MX500, it's simply so accurate and intuitive you forget it's there.

              Best UI: Still BeOS - clean, ultra fast and responsive (not to mention multiple desktops at different res/color depth)

              2D graphics: Matrox grade

              Monitor: Large, hight res, with minimum 85Hz. If going dual/triple, all monitors must have same color balance.

              FS: BeFS was ideal

              3D: Win2k

              Hardware compatibility: Win2k

              Audio: something between Win2k and BeOS (seperate volume per application)

              Stability: BSD

              Security: OpenBSD

              Case: adequate cooling, dust proof, dead silent, plentry of room inside

              Thats a good start...
              "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."

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