I tried Mepis, OpenSuse and Swiftfox today.
Mepis promised good hardware support, so I thought that might be good for my sony laptop which still isn’t working fully. Sadly Mepis did not even understand it was running on a sony. Overall pretty crap.
OpenSuse was even more interesting. The live CD didn’t boot. It seems there are problems with IDE DVD players. Come on! It does look nice in Virtual Box, but I don’t want to install it without seeing if it supports my hardware. Overall disappointing.
Swiftfox is great! It’s a version of Firefox that is compiler for your processor. It’s faster then Firefox and I have the feeling that it’s more stable.
Small stuff:
Small things can make life more beautiful 
GUI, Linux
GTK Theme, Icons, Mepis, OpenSuse, Swiftfox
Why is AWN such a crap product. It looks beautiful, but it crashes, the UI is hopeless and some stuff just doesn’t work. I really don’t understand why it seems to be so complicated to create a dock for linux that just works. Is that really so hard to do?
A dock should work like AWN, but then not show the stuff that AWN shows when you startup. The notification area should look a bit better then it does now. The hide/show should work, can somebody think what should happen when you open a menu or popup (the terminal popup is great) and the dock hides? Should the dock even hide then? It should be possible to put the dock on the upper, left and right part of the screen.
All pretty basic stuff, but it seems our coding friends out there can’t get it done. I hope they will at some point, because the Gnome panel is worthless and it’s time for something new. Until then I’ll have to live with AWN.
GUI, Linux
AWN, GUI, Linux
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