waiting for stable opensuse 11.4.
only until then i will have fancy desktop.

reinstall everything since its still not too late to do so..
messed up my crunchbang when tried to install fglrx (AMD says it will support up to X.org 7.6 but CB got 7.7.. maybe thats the cause.)

tsk tsk.. you people.. such blasphemous desktop.

every linux are supposed to be this ugly.

Reinstall my OS after some fakap blind experiment. as usual, openSUSE (13.1).
This is my first time using Gnome since the last installation of that those ancient, rinky dink Gnome 2.x like 7 years ago. To my surprise so much wow.
Such solid feel, perfect balance of performance, stability and eye candy I never experienced in current KDE or XFCE. (jakun gak aku nih)
They went little overboard with customizations restrictions, but still the overall experience is very refreshing. And this going to get even better once Wayland starts replacing X (and actually gets fglrx support much much later lol).

I want to try but.. ughh.. too lazy to reinstall oss radeon driver.

Should take chance when openSUSE 13.2 released tonight.

My desktop right now.
Fglrx hates current Gnome that it refuse to run X. Apparently it has something to do with Wayland preview in Gnome (according to multiple sources on web).
looks like I'm stuck with oss radeon driver until this issue resolved.



This post has been edited by failed.hashcheck: Dec 13 2014, 10:34 PM

oh. never know such thing do exist

thanks but the issue solved now.

Apparently GDM doesnt work with latest FGLRX (or the other way around). GDM just crash. The rest of gnome is perfectly working.

So I just use Lightdm instead and its working fine now.


btw showoff time - Behold! Look at my generic, plain, not amusing Gnome desktop that I definitely need not to show to anyone else because they have exactly same desktop as mine .


This post has been edited by failed.hashcheck: Jan 29 2015, 02:32 PM

How to make that application/places/chrome on taskbar?

ya what is the extension name?

aa ok thanks.

Im using openSUSE. Working fine here


Im not sure how Ubuntu's package delivery work but maybe you could try the other build from different repo?

My disk corrupted and I have to reinstall.
So I install KDE lah. try test.

Deng. Im so clueless.
After so long using gnome now I find KDE is so clunky, fussy, laggy etc.
launching applications requires more effort, font smoothing (Infinality) just makes the font uglier with those colorful fringing artifacts. Installing fglrx just make the lag more apparent,
..and more importantly.. the cahsew !! I hate the cashew!!

Strange.. I was fan of KDE4 before I tried Gnome 3 for first time few month back.
The only thing I still love about KDE now is it being space efficient (unlike stupidly big everything in Gnome) and its ability to remember root permission.

Wah another rare breed! OpenSUSE user! Neat desktop summpre
I tought everyone else here use more mainstream distros like mint or *buntu or arch.


At the end I use KDE less than 30 min before I revert back to Gnome.
But this time I took the opportunity to install tumbleweed distribution. Currently its using Gnome 3.16 so many pleasant UI changes.
And also.. terminal transparency is back!!


This post has been edited by failed.hashcheck: May 1 2015, 09:55 PM

haha I go the other way round. Abandoning fglrx (AMD driver) in favor of tumbleweed. So damn worth it i tell u .

Enjoyed this update porn when openSUSE decide to move tumbleweed to GCC 5

if you want to do REAL work, then use a major distro with simple but stable UI.

If you are using Elementary OS, you may ended wasting more of your time literally using the OS itself by figuring out missing stuff, trying not to break the already fragile GUI, or even compiling supposedly unnecessary things (and get rekt solving dependencies).
hardcore Linux promoter always bait potential users with nice screenshot. But they don't tell you the horror behind it. <--prove me wrong

Look for the giants like Fedora, openSUSE, or Mint, preferably with Gnome GUI or its derivatives. (I found there are too many distractions with KDE. Its okay if you don't mind some clutters).
Doing everyday activities would be more awesome with latest and greatest stuff, so you may want to look for constantly updated rolling release distro like openSUSE Tumbleweed or Arch, ..well, if you are okay with updates knocking your door on daily basis though.

Disclaimer:
This is just my personal experience and opinion. eOS gives me headache on my hardware and usage pattern, but not others. so YMMV.
Im currently using Gnome on openSUSE Tumbleweed on desktop (and 13.1 on servers) , but the real reason I like openSUSE is for its management toolset that I think is better than other distro.

This post has been edited by failed.hashcheck: Aug 31 2015, 06:28 AM

Nowadays Linux desktop is just so useable its no point showing off.

Just decade ago getting font smoothing working on point is something you want to show off.

we still doing this?