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? Nessari ?????? ?????? ????????
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, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia
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quoting Rhetorica:
Wow. Such mono, very culture. Part of the joy of distros is being able to put up with all of them at once. Anthologica runs SUSE, CM.net runs Arch, and my work machines are (mostly) Ubuntu... Except for SciNet, which is CentOS. Out of all the systems I've used at worked with, I think SLES (Enterprise SUSE) is the only truly awful one; their repos aren't quite complete enough to accomplish arbitrary tasks.

Nort's scared me away from Arch for life most likely. I really haven't looked into SUSE for…3-4 years now, from when I first switched to Linux all but full-time. And I don't switch often because it's such a fight to relearn how everything happens; I am extremely dependent on habit and knowing what to expect ahead of time in order to handle things. I know this is a bad thing, but I've only ever been able to break it while being extremely on the move, ie trips…if I'm somewhere for longer than a week, it takes back over.

That got a bit meta, but it's still applicable I think.
? thelettermu posts: 262
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**Debian 4 Life**

I tried SUSE but I had problems with it running crazy slow (on my VM) or not starting (on my second box).

But, but… But there are other distros you could try before making such a drastic decision!

quoting Nessari:
Synaptic isn't even installed in Ubuntu anymore. It's still in the repos, but it's been sent to the Not Automatically Installed pile.

At any rate, Synaptic is using a washing machine, apt-get is handwashing clothing.

Ah, probably my experience is outdated now. I have primarily been working with Ubuntu 9.10, after all.
(So, nowadays Ubuntu sucks even more?)

I wish I had that option. They're all Windows XP or 7. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO ENTER UNICODE CHARACTERS FFS AND THIS IS TWENTY-FOURTEEN

Dunno, tried CKFW?
? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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, 侯, Dalian, China
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custom keyboard layouts

but since they're work computers I suggest quiet resignation to your fate
? Jipí der saz ûf eime steine
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, Transition Metal, Germany
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quoting meficat:
Dunno, tried CKFW?

But not on a work computer

On the other hand, I put babelmap.exe into my uni account, too, and nobody has yet called me out on it.
? thelettermu posts: 262
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quoting Jipí:
quoting meficat:
Dunno, tried CKFW?

But not on a work computer

What's the problem? Download, unzip and run — it needs no installation. Afterwards close it and delete the folder if you feel guilty. Or keep it on a pendrive, if you can.
? twabs fair maiden
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I run Kubuntu 14.04; it comes with Muon but I prefer Synaptic. Of course, I'll use apt-get when possible, just for the sake of not opening an extra window.
? Morrígan Witch Queen of New York
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For keyboards, I use KMFL with dbus on Debian, and Ekaya on Windows (which loads Keyman files the same way). I love it.
? Nessari ?????? ?????? ????????
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, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia
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KEYMANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

I remember that from wayyy back when it was packaged with the SIL IPA93 fonts

I'm in love with UIM myself…at least when I can get it to work, it has an X-SAMPA > IPA direct mode, as in type the xsampa, the IPA shows up on the screen. For most other things, Compose has been enough for me. I'm still trying to work out how to make XCompose work right.
? thelettermu posts: 262
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I'm on a Linux now and I still find CKFW better than even original Compose.
? Matrix Chronicler of the Myriad
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My OS is Windows 7.
? twabs fair maiden
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After struggling for weeks I finally managed to get XCompose and xim to work. On Windows I use CKFW.
? thelettermu posts: 262
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? Nortaneous ? ?????
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, Marquis, Maryland
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quoting Nessari:
quoting Rhetorica:
Wow. Such mono, very culture. Part of the joy of distros is being able to put up with all of them at once. Anthologica runs SUSE, CM.net runs Arch, and my work machines are (mostly) Ubuntu... Except for SciNet, which is CentOS. Out of all the systems I've used at worked with, I think SLES (Enterprise SUSE) is the only truly awful one; their repos aren't quite complete enough to accomplish arbitrary tasks.

Nort's scared me away from Arch for life most likely. I really haven't looked into SUSE for…3-4 years now, from when I first switched to Linux all but full-time. And I don't switch often because it's such a fight to relearn how everything happens; I am extremely dependent on habit and knowing what to expect ahead of time in order to handle things. I know this is a bad thing, but I've only ever been able to break it while being extremely on the move, ie trips…if I'm somewhere for longer than a week, it takes back over.

That got a bit meta, but it's still applicable I think.

Arch is the best Linux distro I've used, except for the part where the devs intentionally break things to purge their userbase. Also there's no install script anymore.

I'm on Ubuntu now and I fucking hate it.
? Izambri Left of the middle
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"Captain we have reached 3mm successfully".
"Perrrfect. Hold on".
? twabs fair maiden
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quoting Nortaneous:
I'm on Ubuntu now and I fucking hate it.

Unity, or do you mean *buntu in general?
? thelettermu posts: 262
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I wouldn't be surprised if both.
? Nortaneous ? ?????
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, Marquis, Maryland
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ding ding ding
? twabs fair maiden
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Why, then, if I may ask?
? Nessari ?????? ?????? ????????
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, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia
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quoting ObsequiousNewt:
Why, then, if I may ask?

It's hard to tell outside of actually using each of the distro/DE combinations which is the lesser evil for yourself; and reinstalling being the pain in the ass it is, sometimes we end up sticking with something we dislike (in my case Ubuntu's refusing to allow distro upgrades while any non-Canonical-approved repos are in use, plus several arcane UI/system glitches which make certain programs I run excruciating to use normally) for a time.
? con quesa posts: 13
, Layperson, California
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I use and enjoy arch. Frankly it's given me no trouble at all for like, several years now. Pacman is the best linux package manager.
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