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

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Steve wrote:

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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.

I agree; switched from windows 2 years ago and am soooo glad I made the change. I use linux, dos, and my commodore. I do use windows at work but not at home. At home I just log in to windows once a week to update it and the antivirus but I don't do any computing on it anymore.


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. ;-)

However, I agree too that it in it's present state, Arachne isn't as good as Opera, IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, or a pretty long list of other browsers. Nothing to do with OS. Comparing the user friendliness of a program to an OS isn't quite a valid comparison.


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.

I second this. In fact, I tried to 'update' it so it would compile on linux but didn't get too far. I might give it another go here shortly. But it does seem disingenuos to keep using this line: -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --



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