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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 Mar 2000.
Re: My Desktop

Re: My Desktop

From Mike <ps4...@ukc.ac.uk> · alt.ascii-art · 9 Mar 2000 00:00 · View full thread · report
Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>  So you are using no graphical browser (aka as Netscape ;)? Netscape is
> unuseable without a mouse, and Opera is far from being useable at the
> moment.

"lynx" is the magic word :) ... more than a simple browser :)

>  Furthermore you don't seem to be doing any graphics - for gimp is also
> quite useless without the help of a mouse.

...well, I prefer ASCII graphics!! The only thing u need is a humble
terminal :)
 
>  Yes, I also don't use my mouse quite often (thanks to the easy
> configuration of WindowMaker or Sawmill), but in some circumstances you
> really need a mouse (e.g. within quake ;). Face the fact: If a Linux

...games, games... the only game I like to play is FIFA but needs :{
MSWin.
afterall I don't like games .-

> user needs a mouse depends on the thing s/he does. Everything else is as
> ignorant as MS is.

That's right but not correct taking into account the above.
 
>  Have fun!
> P.S.: Gee, I wonder why such a proud Linux-User as you needs to use on
> the one hand Netscape for posting (get a real newsreader(tm) like [1])
> and on the other hand need NT for that (my excuse is beeing at work,
> what is yours ;)

Unfortunately the University is full of NT boxes :(

Thnx anyway
Mike @


> --
> Gerfried Fuchs
> <URL:mailto:alf...@innocent.com>
> <URL:http://alfie.ist.org/alfie/>
> [1] <URL:http://space.mid.edu/~davis/slrn.html>

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