| From: Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
| Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:35:17 +0100
|[ ... ]
| I'm not actually a passionate supporter of Windows.
| In fact I seem to be the only person in the world
| who finds it more difficult to use than Linux.
Windross-is-difficult is both trivial and the norm.
I find Windross IMPOSSIBLE to use.
NOTHING behaves in a sensible fashion.
except for the damage it would do the the whales
offshore, I would have no objection if the world's
entire nuclear weapons arsenal were disposed of on
Redmond. explosively. (one very encouraging thing
about N.Korea maybe having a few warheads and some
missiles is Redmond is within range.)
incidentally, my solution to the X11 drag-and-paste
confusion is simple: "drag, and middle button to
paste.“ end of story. that's all I do. I don't
worry about Primary, Secondary, or Clipboard; all
I do is drag, and middle-button paste. this has
worked fine for >10 years, X11v4, v5, v6, vtwm,
KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, etc, etc. simple.
cheers!
-blf-
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