I am more of a minimalist. Yes I am a programmer but I tend to live
in a dev env which is not quite ideal. Windows XP. I like WindowMaker
b'cos it is fast and takes very little resources. I am able to
do most of the stuff I need to do with the window manager.

John Chung


--- On Mon, 6/16/08, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [EE] Fedora 9 First Impression
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
> Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 3:53 PM
> Many Unix/Linux programmers I know prefers lightweight
> window manager,
> blackbox. They do not need fancy gadgets, only something
> that allows them to
> open many terminal windows to run vim + gdb... But
> that's the beauty of
> linux, isn't it? To have more than one choice and to be
> able to use the
> window manager you like.
> 
> Tamas
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Xiaofan Chen
> <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 6/16/08, John Chung <kravnus@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > > I rather use WindowMaker for the Window Manager.
> Faster and more
> > > responsive.
> >
> > Hmm, that was old. Even XFCE is rather useless
> compared to
> > Gnome/KDE. KDE seems to be more "powerful"
> but I am fine
> > with Gnome. To me, anything simpler is only for very
> very
> > underpowered PC.
> >
> > Xiaofan
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