11-05-2019, 12:43 PM
I'm outdoors with the laptop today to get an idea of how much battery life I can expect. This machine is a lot lighter than my older Windows 7 laptop, which probably means I'll be using it as a portable a lot more.
GNOME got on my nerves in a hurry. It has a cellphone-style status / menu bar at the top of the screen. It's more like OS X than classic Windows. The screen resolution isn't really high enough to have another toolbar taking up space. In my opinion, all the little "tray icons" belong on the righthand side taskbar. So I installed Cinnamon, the same GUI I'm using on the Debian desktop PC. After changing GUIs, I thought I had lost that snazzy Ubuntu "app store" program, but I eventually found it and put an icon to it on my desktop.
Thankfully, the popup on-screen keyboard went away with GNOME. It was annoying, and I'd never use it seeing how there's, you know, a real fucking keyboard right there under it.
The only other thing that annoys me is that the machine has a full numeric keypad. The QWERTY keyboard and mousepad are farther to the left than I'm used to on a laptop.
GNOME got on my nerves in a hurry. It has a cellphone-style status / menu bar at the top of the screen. It's more like OS X than classic Windows. The screen resolution isn't really high enough to have another toolbar taking up space. In my opinion, all the little "tray icons" belong on the righthand side taskbar. So I installed Cinnamon, the same GUI I'm using on the Debian desktop PC. After changing GUIs, I thought I had lost that snazzy Ubuntu "app store" program, but I eventually found it and put an icon to it on my desktop.
Thankfully, the popup on-screen keyboard went away with GNOME. It was annoying, and I'd never use it seeing how there's, you know, a real fucking keyboard right there under it.
The only other thing that annoys me is that the machine has a full numeric keypad. The QWERTY keyboard and mousepad are farther to the left than I'm used to on a laptop.
