[dundee] when asked what your favourite os by a non linux person......

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this was my responce (the copy and paste from the conversation rather):
*MedicineAl's Wife BubbleFunker:* i was askin what ur fave OS is?
*47106254:* just now.... Sabayon
*47106254:* on the whole.
*47106254:* though there are a few features i'd like to import from suse,
dsl and um... no wait, sabayon is the shit.
*MedicineAl's Wife BubbleFunker:* and why?
*MedicineAl's Wife BubbleFunker:* brb, patient
*47106254:* well, for one.... it's full.
*47106254:* as in, it has many desktop environments to choose from and
loaded with software
*MedicineAl's Wife BubbleFunker:* ok
*47106254:* for two.... it's features, nearly all of them, seem to work out
of the box... a couple lights n switches to be clicked for the mic, but that
was about all the configuring i had to do. it even did dual monitor outta
the box and that funky 3D desktop is there too if i want it, though there
are yet even more functionally practical things...
*47106254:* for three... more functionally practical things. i dont know
where to start.... the desktop navigation... currently, i have 9 desktops,
which are layed out as if one, and a box in the bottom right allows me to
navigate to each screen neatly with a left click or smoothly around the
whole area locking on anywhere i want with the righ mouse button. tip of the
iceberg stuff. i can not only resize windows, but reSCALE them too (which u
have to be careful with it can get fiddly, but they figured out ways around
the fiddlyness too which a monkey would discover by clicking in frustration
when he accidentally scaled -50% rather than +50% and the handles became too
small.
*47106254:* for four.... the menu ... or rather the menu buttons... at least
in this version of gnome desktop i'm currently in. they chose not to use the
gnome menu as standard but their own one, which has its pros and cons... so
i decided to add the gnome standard one too (familiarly like the win95 style
start menu, but just better automatically organising into categories) with
simple right clicking and choosing add from the menu.
*47106254:* for five.... it's pretty. made in italy by designery folks who
know how to make something shexsheeeeeee
*47106254:* for six...... it automounts the hard drives it can, and lays
them ALL out for you as handy little buttons (and oh how i wish i had
labeled them all as i made all those partitions, lol. "mounted hard drive
4.2gb" doesnt help me. my own fault.)... however... this is an area i find
lacking also... as for some reason they have chosen not to include the NTFS
read-write features... which i'll have to get around to looking up gentoo
and sabayon help on how to impliment at some stage.
*47106254:* for seven.... it's based on gentoo. why is this a great thing?
because gentoo are famed for having the best help. even the mighty ubuntu is
still behind... though theres another feature i'd like to see.. gOS's online
wikifaq or whatever u call it.
*47106254:* for eight.... like all the things i've loved in the past and
beheld as my "favourite", as great as it is, i still see room for
improvement. i struggled to see this with suse. suse was made by german
novel, primarily, and thus, it had all its questions answered, and was very
complete and rounded (until they opened it up to full "open-source" and you
lost that german perfection, with too many cooks spoiling the broth and
adding way more unreliability), and you couldnt see anywhere else to go.
sabayon, asks more questions, isnt scared to open new unexplored development
pathways and just point out the wide delta to explore. and it does this
seemingly with remarkable reliability.
*47106254:* for nine.... it's reliable. ok, so a couple things crashed, but
usually due to me going nuts with opening all sorts of things poor konqueror
wasnt originally designed to do (as amazing as it manages them anyway....
most of the time) and anytime it has, it still has that strong "no reset"
ethic. my main menu button crashed, no problem, i started it up again.
something else crashes that makes it unuseable, no problem, ctrl alt
bckspace to restart the session, not the os, not the computer... just your
desktop environment.
*47106254:* for eleven... the little touches.... individually scalable icons
for example. need to remind yourself of something's importance but it still
just keeps getting burried among all the rest on teh desktop? make it
bigger! hehe. and theres loads more i've yet to explore. its a joy to use.
*47106254:* n that will do as i doubt u expected an essay on the topic.
*47106254:* might have to copy this to my blog. lol
*MedicineAl's Wife BubbleFunker:* copy it to an email to me!


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