Comments on: Linux Journal Readers’ Choice Awards: Ubuntu Weak, Unity Shunned

By: Per-Åke Ling

Per-Åke Ling — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:43:17 +0000

I use both Chrome and Firefox, there are some differences but on the whole they do the job.

An exciting browser I am using more and more is Vivaldi, done by the original Opera developers who wanted to do “Opera as it was supposed to be”. It has some unique features that I really like such as tiling (and stacking) tabs.

Since I often end up testing web based software and I generally cannot log in as different users in the same browser, I end up using two or three browser (and if I also use “private mode” I can have six different users logged…).

In the end, the only browser I find really disagreeable is of course IE both as a user experience as well as compatibility issues. I have also been unimpressed by Edge (perhaps it is only immature). [These are thankfully not available on Linux!]

Last minute observation: I di not notice this post was 6 years old! Apologies 🙂

By: Howard Gray

Howard Gray — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 06:20:54 +0000

Mr. Laden,
A trifle, I know, but, IMHO a TRUE LINUX GEEK would not be caught compiling in anything but a barbwire shirt. Hair shirts are so BSD.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:41:22 +0000

eamacs makes an excellent word processor. You just need a function that sends your mark-down text to any one of several possible servers including LaTeX or markdown or whatever. For a long time that’s what I did. I still do that but I also use similar tools. I hardly ever use a word processor.

The basic flaw, to make a long story short, is the idea that you a) make a wonderfully configurable system then b) ignore the configurations almost everyone almost always does when they install the system as though messing with the original configuration or advancing the development of the system was bad. And it can be bad. But it would be very very easy to create a few modes that mirror existing major modes but provide commonly used sets of alternative. Such as:

html-not-the-annoying-one-mode

org-not-as-annoying-mode

and so on.

By: Tim Schafer

Tim Schafer — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:34:13 +0000

On the subject of best text editor, still holding out for this:

“The emacs philosophy is deeply flawed and needs to be overhauled. I’m working on a post that follows up on that rather tendentious statement, and don’t worry, I’ll make good on it.”

To assuage my fear that I may be coming off as trying to light a fire under your bridge to editing nirvana, let me just say that I agree with you on the importance of text and that I don’t have a particular bias for change, or status quo for that matter. Just curious what your analysis is. Though something tells me this is not what you have in mind:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00515.html
Had to check if it was April when I first tripped over that!

Happy New Year!

By: Iain Robertson

Iain Robertson — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:28:31 +0000

Just a minor point – it’s Raspberry – not Rasberry (as (mis)printed several times in the article and comments -)

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:11:28 +0000

dot file is good idea.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:21:14 +0000

Call me old fashioned but I just copy and paste the dot file with everything in it. Sometimes I even remember to clear the cache beforehand as well!

But FF has a sync option (which I don’t use) and you can export bookmarks to HTML or as JSON.

I haven’t used Chromium in an age, but when I reverted back to FF, FF was quicker, or at least with my setup it was. I think that was circa Chrome/Chromium builds 10 – 13. Maybe that’s a bit prehistoric now…

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:28:50 +0000

So Firefox doesn’t have that feature? That’s the main reason I use Chromium. I quit firefox because it was relatively slow and clunky, but I assume that sort of thing gets better and worse with different releases so a given browser will move ahead or behind others over time. But the ability to have a master bookmark thingie is major.

By: Stephen Green

Stephen Green — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:09:48 +0000

I too have Firefox but almost never use it. With chromium I can
install a Linux desktop and add Chromium which allows me to keep all my bookmarks and stuff. That’s a biggy for me as I’m a distro hopper who changes Linux distros regularly..

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:26:29 +0000

You bring up a good point. Debian was the first Linux distro that I was able to get going too so very appreciative of a distro like that. Thanks to Debian I now am able to user Arch and I configure every single aspect of my installation. Control freak I know but I love it.