{"id":1460,"date":"2008-02-14T18:21:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T18:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/14\/in-linux-you-can\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T18:21:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T18:21:05","slug":"in-linux-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/in-linux-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"In LInux, you can&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choose among a wide range of cool desktops.  These are not &#8220;skins&#8221; or mods like in Windows.  These are entirely different desktop systems that each have their unique characteristics.<!--more-->What this means is that you can choose a desktop that does a lot of work for you &#8230; like my main home computer, which is fairly tricked out.  I&#8217;ve got drawers that contain icons to avoid clutter on a task bar, I&#8217;ve got a taskbar on the top and a task panel on the bottom, the weather and a box to put words to look up in a dictionary, and other cool stuff is on the task bar.I&#8217;ve got a second installation in a computer that has only a limited number of purposes, and does not need anything fancy on the desktop, so I use a very low demand, very functional desktop that leaves lots of memory available for my applications.In Windows, you get what they give you, it is resource-hungry, and if you want to change it you have to add more.  There is no slimmed down version of the windows system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose among a wide range of cool desktops. These are not &#8220;skins&#8221; or mods like in Windows. These are entirely different desktop systems that each have their unique characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-ny","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}