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• It's all personal, but... (Score:1)

  by phillup (4419)

  OK, I'll be the first to say that most of the things you mentioned boil down to personal taste.
  
  But... I'm gonna call you on the copy / paste thing.
  
  Yep. I know about all the apps that don't share info on the "clipboard" in Linux.
  
  But, at least I don't have to remember to use a keyboard combo to actually get info into the clipboard.
  
  Only about 50 times a day do I find myself screaming (it's OK, I work from home... nobody can hear me ;-)) after shuffling thru the windows... hiliting some text... shuffling th
  • Re:It's all personal, but... (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087)

    I've done both cut-n-paste systems for a number of years. I spent about 4 years using nothing but Unix (mostly Linux) on the desktop, and seriously thought that cut and paste was too much effort on Windows.
    
    But having used a Unix with a decent UI I'm won over. Gone are those irritating moments of highlighting something by accident and having my clipboard buffer blatted. It's just too confusing. I guess it comes back to the old unix style of being user friendly but choosy about who it's friends with. I guess
    • Re:It's all personal, but... (Score:2)

      by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2004.02.22 4:12 (#28669) Homepage Journal

      Don't get confused with the selection and clipoard buffers in X. The selection is intended to be ephemeral. The clipboard is not and stays around longer (although it is lost if the process exits, which is annoying and why your need to have xclipboard or klipper handy).

      -Dom

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