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Best Linux GUI for programmers?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 11:06

Currently running 9.10 with Gnome on my thinkpad x200. I'd like to get a new GUI, which one is best for programming? I'm considering Rat poison but I thought it would be worth getting advice from /prog/ before I commit. Thanks.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 11:12

xfce or xmonad

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 11:19

Since you think ``Linux'' is synonymous with ``Ubanto'' and are asking about a ``GUI'' rather than a window manager, I'm going to say you need to stick with GNOME for another while. I don't think anyone feels like helping an idiot set up a tiling window manager.

>>2
Those aren't even the same class of things.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 11:20

I prefer to ssh in

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 11:22

I use X11 and mostly Gtk2

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 11:36

Oh wow, 4 quality posts already? This is so much better than newgrounds!
You guys are helpful AND totally not assholes

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 11:42

What the hell is a GUI, is it like the CLI?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 11:45

>>6
Oh wow, a bitch! We guys are totally going to help you now!

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 11:46

Hasn't rat poison been superceded by stumpWM?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 11:46

>>6
Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 12:10

ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 12:33

I don't see the value of not being assholes, personally, and >>3 was a helpful answer. The most helpful answer you deserve, anyway, and certainly much more helpful than just saying ``xmonad'' or ``dwm''.

Hint: the gist of it was ``you don't know enough to make a sensible decision, look it up''.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 13:54

>>12
Agreed.

OP, if I were you, I'd take a break from ``Ubanto'' and actually read up on what it is you're asking. Start with reading what the X Window System is (also known as ``X11'' or just simply ``X''), and what a ``window manager'' is.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 14:00

But what >>1 is asking for is an interface, based on graphics, between him and the computer. What's the problem?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 14:04

>>10
By your logic
Treat people poorly, get treated poorly.
Go fuck your Mom's couch you virgins.

also, you are using sage incorrectly

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 14:07

>>15
Yes, that works, and has happened. By your logic, >>10's logic is sound.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 14:32

For programming, tiling window managers are the best.

get awesomewm, dwm, or xmonad

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 14:33

>>17
Someone hasn't been paying attention to the thread.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 14:38

>>12
Receiving hostile answers only encourages me to not ask questions all together. Cutting a stream of information. You don't value information?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 14:41

>>19
Not if it's stupid information.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 14:45

>>11
You're right, /prog/ needs ANSI support.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 14:51

>>19
The answers to many questions asked in /prog/ are often easily found using Google's web search technology. We'd like for people to get a basic understanding of things using Google's help before coming to us.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 15:01

>>19
Receiving hostile answers only encourages me to not ask questions all together.
Spelling aside, that's the idea. I don't know why you think asking profoundly ignorant questions on an intermediate programming board amounts to a stream of information; maybe you should try /pr/.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 15:07

glade
ffs

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 19:55

>>23
Spelling, but also grammar. He split an infinitive.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-16 21:45

>>25
That is the sort of language up with which I shall not put.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-17 4:25

>>26
If you're a pro-grammar, up with it you'll put.

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