Posts by ollywompus

I definitely agree that itunes is bloated, don't get me wrong, but it IS a simple process to sync an ipod with it, there's no doubt about that. At any rate, supposedly amarok has fine tuned things to the point where it syncs just as...

haha... did you find e17 hard to work with at all? It's all config files right? I'm used to that with flux, but haven't done it with e17 before. Good ole "sudo vim /home/olly/.fluxbox/<random config file>" -olly

Lol, it's because I decided to post a few things, people just love me that much -olly

Quote: Originally Posted by bigtrouble77 What mp3 player do you have problems with? I'm pretty sure both amarok and Rythmbox both support creative and apple players. Just about everything else is UMD so it really...

Well hell, I'll jump on this one. I've been linux only for years now, but one thing that bothers me is mp3 player support. It's getting better, but it still has a tendency to be buggy. I have a 5G ipod video coming this week, we'll...

OH, and be careful with automatix and alternative window managers... it fried my first flux install, had to go back to a server state and reinstall both flux and KDE. -olly

abf: what login manager are you using (planning on using). Can I make a suggestion: don't use gdm or kdm, as e17 doesn't like them much (never been able to figure out why, but that's been my experience). Use xdm instead, seemed to work...

It's funny to me that people have so many problems with ndiswrapper. I've used it with every distro I have used (because current Broadcom support is TRULY a joke: I had to blacklist it from Kubuntu 6.06 LTS just to be able to use...

Quote: Originally Posted by abf i tried pretty much all WMs there are to try, and as much as i like the speed and purtiness of e17, or the minimal resource usage by twm, i can't help but go back to gnome, or at the very...

Quote: Originally Posted by abf olly, much like you, no matter what i tried, i always found myself back on Ubutnu. but now, i have found myself coming back to Arch. since this weekend i went: Gentoo ----> Ubuntu...