Alternative Desktop Options

[wizard]

@geo_c

My use of a single directory/folder to organize my most used programs/tools and keep the desktop uncluttered also originated in Windows long ago. I still have to work in both Windows and Puppy, so both desktops look and are organized the same. No matter which OS I'm using, the stuff I need is in the same place. Helps a lot with my brain's low ram condition, LOL.

wizard

[JASpup]

In the end I believe it's a matter of practice and understanding which tools do the job, and it's similar to the choices I make when playing and composing music. By trial and error I assess things like learning curve, dependability, stability, and flexibility to make decisions on what systems and apps to invest my energy.

I appreciate and admire that position, especially as you portray more artistic than technical, and getting a DAW working in Linux is one of the more difficult endeavors.

I am not a musician, more of a tinkerer, yet the technical PC music aspect has always been daunting. I liked LMMS but need a score for editing and had latency problems.

I have a Windows DAW that supports soundfonts like LMMS but it requires a Soundblaster. With the latency, it all makes sense.

Working with audio that isn't sampled we either have to treat a PC like a multitrack or cut up recorded pieces played (or MIDI'd), or attempt MIDI & audio in the same project and hope for the best.

It's almost like without internal control of audio (e.g., soundfonts), we need a dual system, one for performance and another for capture.

I began believing naively a 16-channel multitimbral synth = 16 channels of synthesizer audio and a DI guitar could sound like an AC30 mic'd.

Lucid is the base of one of the Puppy Studios I booted, 4 I think. Also where I first saw Cairo.

I am still bogged down on the system. E.g., with a 2T HD being more than I needed, I'm attempting to make constructive use.

One of my biggest fears is losing Redmond restoration media, so I just tried to clone a 3GB DellRestore partition in XP, and it stayed at 10% for 25 minutes.

So instead of trying to clone it, I'm going to try backing it up to a 3rd space and restore. It's tedious after a while but hopeful.

I dropped a Windows 7 laptop 4' to tile a couple years ago which brought me to Linux. Redmond or the PC maker wouldn't provide restoration media. Mint brought it to life but crashed while Puppy is chugging along.

Maybe someday Linux will always be good enough.

Wisely I ought simplify.

[wizard]

@geo_c

And one thing I just figured out in ROX is that if you open an enter path dialogue, it can be left open all the time and dual used as an address bar - path entry tool. As far as I can tell XFE doesn't have that function.

geo, I think XFE's Location bar (view>Location bar) is the same function or are you able to do more with rox?

wizard

[geo_c]

geo, I think XFE's Location bar (view>Location bar) is the same function or are you able to do more with rox?

wizard

Oh yeah! You're right. Trust me, I looked there in the past, don't know how it didn't register. It's not that I can do more or less, but maybe it's just that each one does things their own way. ROX of course is a little more integrated into the system, and it really becomes a matter of mood and how many windows I have open, what I'm doing at the moment.