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| tracyanne Mar 30, 2009 11:48 PM EDT |
Konqueror is just as limited as Dolphin, because the file management part of Konqueror is now replaced with Dolphin. |
| SamShazaam Mar 31, 2009 9:44 AM EDT |
I was one of those people who were hesitant to change away from Konqueror. However I find that Dolphin is able to do many tasks, such as daily backups, much faster than Konqueror. |
| tracyanne Mar 31, 2009 9:55 AM EDT |
OH well you have Dolphin which ever you use, and you're welcome to it. |
| jacog Mar 31, 2009 10:59 AM EDT |
I have grown rather fond of Dolphin too. The only feature I miss is the fact that in konq you were able to split the panes any way you want and as often as you want. But in retrospect, I didn't use that feature all that much anyway. |
| Bob_Robertson Mar 31, 2009 12:41 PM EDT |
Back when I first used Netscape (on SunOS before Win95 existed), I was very pleased that I could use it to "browse" the local file system as well as web sites. Of course, there wasn't the "drag and drop" and other file manager functionality that came later with I.E. and Konqueror, but even just having browse capability was a massive improvement over having to "cd ; ls -al" at the command prompt. Konqueror provided a "one stop shopping" experience, and I like that. Right now I've got 5 tabs, a local file manager, sftp:// to a server, LXer, local weather, and etc. So two of five are used for file managing, and I like that both local and remote are given to me to deal with in exactly the same way. I haven't tried Dolphin yet, being "once burned twice shy" after my first experience with KDE4, but my hope is that the same level of integration is possible. I wouldn't want to take a step backwards in functionality at this point. |
| tracyanne Mar 31, 2009 4:51 PM EDT |
@Bob, that's why I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 rather than Mandriva 2009.0. |
| DiBosco Mar 31, 2009 6:19 PM EDT |
Quoting: @Bob, that's why I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 rather than Mandriva 2009.0. I just stuck with 2008.1 rather than upgrading at all. On my spare machine though I've been playing around with Debian Lenny rather than Cooker which seems to have its good points and bad points. One thing Debian does make you realise is just how much effort Mandriva put into making Linux easier for noobs! Either that or I'm so used to Mandriva's way of doing things and just not familiar with Debian's. (I'm not convinced of the latter though!) |
| herzeleid Mar 31, 2009 6:35 PM EDT |
Quoting:One thing Debian does make you realise is just how much effort Mandriva put into making Linux easier for noobs!I haven't tried mandriva since it was called mandrake, but I did install debian lenny on my laptop recently to get a feel for it, tried in vain to get wireless up and running, and decided that it would make a great server platform. Afterwards I was glad and relieved to re-install ubuntu 8.10 on the laptop and everything "just worked" out of the box. |
| tracyanne Apr 01, 2009 3:42 AM EDT |
Quoting:I just stuck with 2008.1 rather than upgrading at all. I discovered that I needed a later version of the kernel than comes with 2008.1, to be able to use the iPhone with my Linux box, and by happen stance I discovered that the 2.6.27.x version that comes with the EeeBuntu (8.10) that installed on the net book works perfectly, so I upgraded my main lappy to Ubuntu 8.10 as well, rather than try Mandriva 2009.0, which has 2.6.26.x, because I don't like the way KDE has been eviscerated. Ubuntu has grown on me, and I really like it, especially the way in which adding bling is almost a trivial exercise, and the 3D desktop can be turned on or off in a moment.. |
| Bob_Robertson Apr 01, 2009 11:06 AM EDT |
I had to do a reinstall last week, due to some astounding file corruption. My /usr/bin directory had lots of files with all ????????????? in the date/group/owner/size areas, and of course they wouldn't execute. Ok. Anyway, since I had an opportunity for the first complete install on this machine in quite a while, I decided to do a clean Debian Lenny. KDE3.5, 2.6.26, C is for cookies, that's good enough for me.... I am impressed. Oh, sure, I've been doing Lenny since it was unstable, but the install was clean and easy, defaults work perfectly, even the esoteric wifi card was both detected correctly and the in-kernel Atheros driver finally worked (instead of having to install the MadWifi driver). The Nvidia driver was put in automatically also, so the two "I have to do it by hand" hardware problems of this old Sony have been solved. Yippie! I still have to use an xorg.conf in order to turn off scrolling on this touch-pad, but hey, I'm seriously cool with that little bit of work compared with how much I had to do in 2003 when I first got the machine. |
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