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Off Topic / Re: How well-known is the above user v.666

« on: October 20, 2013, 10:46:27 PM »

9/10

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Off Topic / Re: FAVORITE HOLIDAY GO

« on: October 20, 2013, 10:43:09 PM »

Thanksgiving because food.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 20, 2013, 09:25:39 PM »

with android, you're supposed to go download more clocks, music players, browsers, books, movies, and all of that crap to make your phone better

with iphone, you just get 1 clock app, 1 multimedia store, 1 browser, 1 book store, that gets updated with big changes, if not, then little on every ios release iirc. you don't need to go searching through a million outdated/third-party apps just to find what you want, it's right here

Dunno about you, but I just got the Samsung Galaxy SIII and all of its stock apps work fine for me.

Also, an Android phone is customizable as hell; you can make it as simple or as convoluted as you want.

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Off Topic / Re: Where do all of you live (roughly)?

« on: October 20, 2013, 04:12:35 PM »

ohio

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 20, 2013, 03:33:03 PM »

disable online searches under privacy
install unity tweak tool
disable search for files and more suggestions

And that is something that most people if not an overwhelming majority of Unity users are going to be doing, therefore these features shouldn't have been included in the first place.

Even then, what if you simply don't like Unity's layout and the way it looks? One could install another desktop environment, but that defeats the purpose of installing Ubuntu in the first place. That, and there are a lot of visual hiccups that come with installing DEs other than the system default.

did you install 13.10 or 12.04

With 13.10, you get slowness and unstability. With 12.04, you get outdated packages with limited functionality. It's a lose-lose, because canonical and other linux development groups that promote this "periodic release" practice are apparently allergic to updated software.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 20, 2013, 03:23:33 PM »

so what's so bad about Ubuntu?  The only real issue is how many default apps it has.

Unity tried to be innovative and better than other DEs, but ended up including a lot of features and making a desktop layout that did more slowing down and confusing than promoting productivity.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 20, 2013, 02:26:54 PM »

Ubuntu is stuff, yeah.

irony

the first distro i ever used was ubuntu also, and i loved it
mainly because it's font was so beautiful

You honestly used a distro just for its font?

I'm absolutely loving done.

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Off Topic / Re: I need to become a nice person.

« on: October 19, 2013, 11:33:45 PM »

It's the forum's fault, probably.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 19, 2013, 03:02:49 PM »

Port acts as if having desktop icons are a sin.

Also, Nal, what application are you using that takes screenshots with drop shadows like that?

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 19, 2013, 02:40:34 PM »

so you're whining over a picture?
my brain hurts

You kind of missed the point.

As KS stated, it's a post your desktop thread, not a "post your desktop and your gtk+ theme and your audio player and your openbox configuration" thread. In some cases, it may be reasonable to post a screenfetch with general system info, but it's not really necessary.

Others have done this plenty of times, but I suppose the only reason you're specifically being attacked is because of your annoying habit to hop on new linux distros far too often than you should.

To wrap it up, my advice is to post only what's really necessary, as anything more that comes off as "techy" or "geeky" also comes off as boastful in the context of this thread.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 19, 2013, 02:06:27 PM »

is making fun of purplemetro like a tradition for you or something

KS is just an starfish, lol.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 19, 2013, 01:32:34 PM »

Oh hey, page 200.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 19, 2013, 01:28:33 PM »

what's with these mass of anime girl avatars, it's confusing me ;-;

Don't hate, appreciate.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 19, 2013, 12:53:00 AM »

laughing about brothers using macs and linux..es... linuxces? whatever

Linux distributions, or "linux distros".

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Off Topic / Re: if you were forced to wear a warning label, what would yours say

« on: October 18, 2013, 09:11:45 PM »

Keep out of reach of children.