Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Linux Q/A: desktop environments (Ask Veronica)" video.

  1. I'm going to hang onto X for as long as I can. Which will be quite some time being as I've already built X. So X not being included in distros won't be a barrier for me. I'm sure Wasteland is all well and good but I've 30 years experience running X that I'm loath to flush.
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  2. I have enough experience with hibernate to recommend you don't do it. I don't think devs use it so it is poorly developed. Most of the time hibernate doesn't work. Just turn your PC off. What's it take like 2 seconds to boot up? Linux isn't Windows.
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  3. But you have run Linux?
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  4. A Desktop Environment is a software suite that contains a Window Manager. The Window Manager is the part responsible for drawing windows and the menu. At least I've never seen a Window Manager that didn't have a menu. I've seen most of them too.
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  5. Linux tends to be pretty responsive. Windows can lose the plot from time to time and leave you hanging for a bit.
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  6. The problem here is you're just not doing it right. You set your DPI before you start X. Then the server enforces that setting on your whole session and your Desktop Environment and all applications have nothing to do with it. Once the session has started it's too late to make that change. But you can change resolution. Although setting up resolutions is a dense topic. Modelines are black magik.
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  7. Well, some distros are tied heavily to their default Windowing environment. Their special utilities are made to run in that environment too. You can manage without those features but doing so would require knowledge that new users don't possess. New users have enough of a workload to deal with too. So heaping more on them at the outset isn't productive.
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