Linux Screen shots

seems pointless since if we have a desktop we wanna show off we just post in the "MONTH Desktop" thread.

I'll post mine for the hell of it. I custom built my theme based off of clearlooks. I still have a way to go. Color sceme is going to be light grey/lime with an iconset from a bunch of different releases. Fonts are from msttcore package, unantialiased. Desktop fonts have the offsetting turned off and color changed. Panel tile I made in gimp.

I also have two of my most important apps running, Maya and vmware (to play all those 2d games and critical win apps).

I personally think gnome is is the cleanest, most usable desktop ever.

Ubuntu Breezy w/Gnome

I'm with you on Gnome, don't like the K desktop much. But, I don't think Linux is ready for prime time yet (but the price is good!) I personally use Libranet on my 'legacy' PC's.

linux is totally ready for prime time.

and WTF in hell are you doing with windows ME?

Ready for prime time, maybe, but not totally, imo. There are much things that still don't work properly and need an experienced user to solve, even in Ubuntu. So, I don't think Linux is ready for full prime time. Anyway, it's really really better than it used to be. Ubuntu is excellent and who says it's difficult, I say, to them, that it's not. It's just different... Just a matter of beeing used to the interface. Most problems I blame lazy companies like ATi.

And yes, Gnome is a very clean, fast desktop.

I agree in that linux is improving, however it is not ready for what I would consider to be the prime time of your computer illeterate running it

It still has a learning curve, which is not nessecarily a bad thing, and some things could definitly be easier in it, but overall it is definitly better.

Seablade

well....there is a reletive learning curve to everything.

going no computer > windows has a curve
going windows > mac or mac > windows has a curve
going mac or windows > linux has a curve

so i don't see why going no computer > linux must have any greater curve than no computer > windows. By that logic those wallmart computers w/ Linspire should sell like hot cakes.

No, but computer with Windows > Computer with linux probably has a slightly higher learning curve due to having to learn a different way of doing things vs a new way of doing things.

Of course it may be that going no computer > Linux is larger learning curve because of a certain amount of basic knowledge of a computer is assumed in most documents on linux.

Not to mention to truly be comfortable in Linux you need to have a greater understanding of the workings of a computer, Windows hides a lot of this and you never have to deal with it, but Linux does not and in fact it is one of the strong points of it is the ease of modifying it.

However I am fairly sure you and I(And half the people here) have had this conversation before.

Seablade

My Pimped Out Desktop

Heh, couldn't resist this one, so here's one to ponder.

http://public.fotki.com/Marspoet/des...owmaker02.html

The setup is:
1st laptop: Sager 9860; WindowMaker 0.92; Slackware 10.2 with a 2.4.32 SMP-i686 kernel; ImageMagick version 6.2.3

2nd laptop: IBM i1472 Thinkpad; Slackware 8.0; ImageMagick version 5.5.7

This desktop screenshot has both my laptops displaying on the same X window screen on the 9860 (liza.) If you want to grasp the extent of what's going on with this screenshot you'll probably have to dl it to your PC and display it there.

The transparent pngs/gifs are from the old IBM i1472 Thinkpad running Slackware 8.0 and a very old version of the display program from the ImageMagick suite of image manipulation software. The newer versions of display from ImageMagick won't work with these transparent files.

The transparent button graphics on the bottom in some cases have their backgrounds filled in by the snow provided by the xsnow program. WindowMaker facilitates the dark lady gif both overlaying _and_ underlaying the control tiles on the right of the screen.

Between the falling snow, the blinky lights of xmms and the network control tile, it's a rather active desktop window. And no, I usually don't have all this going on the main screen when I'm working.

The background image showing in the root window is from:

www.digitalblasphemy.com

which is a great site you've probably already visited. The transparent pngs/gifs I've picked up here and there over the years.

Oops, the background image was actually found at:

www.deviantart.com

IMO, linspire is easier to learn than windows is. and they recently said that they have 1 million active cnr subscriptions, which means that the linspire computers at walmart really did sell pretty well.

ahh...here ya go:

how do you get the burshed aluminum look and the trasparent terminal?

brushed look = its a "CleanestBrushedGnome" application theme from art.gnome.org

trans term =
1. Open Terminal
2. Edit > Current Profile
3. Effects Tab > check "Transparent Background"
4. Change to "Colors" tab and in "Background Color" set the color to the tint you want (in my case...its orange here).

Does this mean sometime I need to post my screenshots?

Not that it would do it justice... Yea for the ability to have animated backgrounds I love how flexible e17 is, I just wish I could use the utils for it on my AMD64 distro.

Seablade

Horray for e17. It turns heads, that's for sure. Fancy....

e17 is such a pain in the azz to config....i am sticking to gnome

Yea I gotta agree with ya there, if you dont have the e-utils package it really is a pain to config. Unfortunatly e-utils doesnt play nicely with my AMD64 so I need to learn to do it by hand. It is somewhere on my list of things to do after learning bash scripting so I can automate file conversions in sox, programming my online resume, and various other things

Obviously it aint happening soon.

Seablade

As far as linux being ready for prime time... I'd have to say it's absolutely is. Here's the problem, tho. It's only ready as an OS. It still needs more support from developers, both hardware and software.

There's also virtually no software you can buy at your local compusa or bestbuy for your linux machine. That needs to change too. Retail software has to accept linux as a viable platform, and it simply hasn't yet. Game companies need to ship with linux installers.

I also wish the millions of distros would consolidate some of their administrative tools to make things less fragmented. The only tools we can really depend on are the ones coming out of gnome and kde.

Another huge problem is that the world has standardized on proprietary technologies, like codecs, ms fonts, document files, etc. That makes it sooo hard for linux to compete because the playing field is not level.

I also don't want to see linux become what windows has become. I don't want it to become a target for trusted computing and drm. I don't want the seurity features removed so that novices users can function, opening the machine up to virus and spyware attacks. I don't want any of my data restricted. I don't want someone to save me from myself. If that's what I have to put up with for linux to be ready for prime time, then i'd much rather live in the prehistoric state it's in now, if that's where you believe it is.