plqa

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by plqa 14y ago
Who's talking about suburbs? That's still thinking in a city mindset. I grew up in a 2500 person country side village in England. That village had everything we needed and it was only 30 minutes bus ride away from the neatest large town. It
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by plqa 14y ago
I would be very sad if I had to bring my children up in these kind of living conditions. I would much prefer a nice house in an area where we can enjoy nature a little but also be close enough to a city so we can access its services. I had
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by plqa 14y ago
I have a feeling that you have not and do not work on anything big or important. It's highly likely that you're still in high school OR you are in some sort of college / University.
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by plqa 14y ago
I never claimed it didn't work. I claimed the UI was bulky. Try having to work with 20 projects folders with millions of .java files and constantly having to sideways scroll.
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by plqa 14y ago
I like things small. My work iMac running OSX makes everything very small. Your comment doesn't really relate to my problems. I need things in Linux to be smaller and more compact. Even with your 1280 x 1024 resolutions screens, everything
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by plqa 14y ago
I'm not really bothered with trying to make it look like OSX> I just want a more compact UI and I want Eclipse to be more compact so it's actually a joy to use rather than a pain. I tried several themes before but got nowhere. I'll prob
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by plqa 14y ago
I've used Ubuntu extensively. I don't mind using Unity but you can't get around the fact that on a standard 15.x inch laptop screen that it looks really nasty, nothing is compact, everything is bulky, the borders are thick and the default f
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by plqa 14y ago
I'd love to hear some suggestions. I'm annoyed that I've spent time with OSX so now I expect a beautiful desktop and applications ;-)
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Ask HN: Moving to Linux full time
10 points by plqa 14y ago|14 comments