[arachne] Re: User-friendliness or lack thereof in Arachne

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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Udo Kuhnt wrote:

Well, it is easy to say that Arachne is better than Netscape or Internet
Explorer if your Windows is just a few key presses away.
I would suggest that all the people on this list who would like to tell
me how user-friendly Arachne is and how bad Windows is to just try to do
without their Windows for a month, or perhaps only a week;

Easy. I've never owned Windows; most likely never will.
Even so, I can do everything I want to, and more... and do it easier than with Windows.
You should take your own advice, only extend it. Do without Windows for a year, i.e., use a *nix instead. Once your year is up, you'll wonder how you ever managed to tolerate Windows in the first place.

then they would probably realise how much Arachne is lacking.
Now that I have said what I think, go on and flame me for criticising
Arachne if you like. ;-)

The biggest objection I have with Arachne is that it only goes up to version 1.66 on the Linux branch.

So, the only way I get to use Arachne is to 'ssh -Y' to my old RH 6.2 box (which runs 24/7 as a news & database server) and fire it up over there, displaying the GGI on the FreeBSD box.
Run-there, display-here arrangement makes mouse movements awfully slow
though. I've taken to using 'links -g' a lot more.


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