Linux Distro Talk

Canschluss 2017-07-01 01:13:49 UTC #41

Just personal and they weren't complicated. One app scraped renseradio archives for Stormfont and David Duke shows. Another pulled content from some youtube channels. Given a little time to polish it up I'd consider offering it to others if there was demand. I definitely think there's a lot of potential in the OpenELEC/Kodi platform but I haven't seen much talk of it here.

Drallod 2017-07-01 01:48:40 UTC #42

It would be handy to have all the Youtube channels and podcasts in one addon.

We use Kodi heavily at our house. I have a bunch of kid friendly White channels set up for the young ones with the Youtube addon and that's primarily what they watch. My 3 year old son can work it now.

AtlRedskull 2017-07-01 14:37:55 UTC #43

I use Fedora and I like it. Course I am fond of the gnome desktop. I couldn't get into unity so would either run gnome or kde if I tried ubuntu. Course I see ubuntu is going to gnome!

2jews1oven 2017-07-07 12:07:49 UTC #44

If you want to go keyboard-oriented, give i3wm a shot. It takes a few days to get used to but is comfy and good for laptops. No longer have to abuse the trackpad just to do basic window management.

my_struggle 2017-07-07 23:17:37 UTC #45

Have you used awesome as well? I tried both and I think I prefer awesome.

2jews1oven 2017-07-08 05:43:45 UTC #46

I'll check it out and edit this post with my thoughts. I think I did try it ages ago and just couldnt get into it. I have i3 setup in a way that could be hard to replicate in awesome.
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It seems like a good alternative to i3wm but personally I like i3wm better. I guess it doesn't matter too much which one you use. As a side note, if I had to recommend a full desktop environment, it would be either LXDE/LXQT or XFCE. When I first got into linux I used LXDE as it was close to Windows' GUI.

my_struggle 2017-07-08 22:36:35 UTC #47

I think the consensus is i3wm. But I liked awesome better. I was experimenting with them both in VMs, but use XFCE on my DD (daily driver).

Canschluss 2017-07-09 15:08:08 UTC #48

+1 for XFCE. I've used it in Xubuntu on my workstation for several years.

Definitely going to give i3wm a try.

Enlightenment is an interesting one too: https://www.enlightenment.org/. It's minimalist in it's way but does compositing and can have lots of eye candy if you set it up that way.