Lemon, April 18, 2014, 09:34:12 am
Greetings human, I just decided to install a 700MB update to one of your games, and saturated your internet connection to do it! You weren't using it, were you?
Oh, you were playing a non-Steam game, and I just caused you to lag out and get kicked from the match? You were watching netflix and I just caused the stream to freeze? Man, I probably should have asked before I did that.
(A huge pet peeve of mine is software that either grabs lots of my system resources or starts long, uncancelable jobs without asking me first. And software updates can frequently do both.)
Old KDE
fluffy, April 18, 2014, 11:47:07 am
I hated KDE 3 a lot more (and I've never used anything older). The thing that I really hate about KDE4 is the atrociously poor integration, and KDE 3 was at least as bad in that respect. At the same time, KDE 4 at least has useful features that KDE 3 didn't, like the comics plasmoid and file-view plasmoid, and the ability to configure a screen-corner-tap to trigger a workspace view (basically like Gnome 3 and.or Expose).
xfce
fluffy, April 18, 2014, 11:47:07 am
XFCE is a really good one, and I pretty much agree with your assessment. The UI is lean and efficient, sanely organized with options for what you want to configure and no bloat.
Although Linux's media player ecosystem is bullshit. They all try to clone the wrong parts of iTunes, for a start.
fluffy, April 18, 2014, 11:47:07 am
Jesus. Amarok is horrible, Rhythmbox is good but it's aging (especially in the UI). Banshee would be really cool if it didn't crash every half-hour or so (more if you try to listen to a podcast).
Lately tho I've mostly been using Google Music's web player (and feedly's web-app for RSS and podcasts), which makes the music player on my platform largely irrelevant. I use VLC whenever I want to play something on the local drive.
Sharepoint!
STOG, April 18, 2014, 01:32:46 pm
Microsoft's business applications. Sure, they're agonizing, but hey, there isn't a competing platform you could switch too, and even if there was it's probably missing a feature that someone in your office is using, so you're pretty much stuck.