Thread: A faster N810??
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2009-07-02 , 09:21
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Originally Posted by ioioio View Post
Well, I find myself constantly going into the command line and starting off with the customary -sudo gainroot in my n810. Be it changing MAC addresses,
Oh, sure, like it's easy to do in the windows gui not! (besides, that's not what a typical gui user would want to do).

Originally Posted by ioioio View Post
power profiles as someone stated,
Nobody forces you to change the power profile, the tablet will work as intended even if you don't do that, that's probably why nokia doesn't provide a gui to modify it. On my laptop I just click on the battery icon and, hey, presto, a gui pops up to set power relate settings.


Originally Posted by ioioio View Post
changing button mappings (run-standalone.sh!! took me forever to figure that one out), etc, etc. As for desktop, anytime I install a Linux OS in Virtualbox, the first thing I have to do is go to the command line and install the Virtualbox guest additions from the command line, because I can't double click it nor right click and run as admin (ty Windows).
I'm not sure it works (I use virtualbox to virtualise windows, not linux), but my distro provides a package for the guest additions, so it's just a matter of clicking on the control panel icon, select the add/remove software option, find the virtualbox guest additions, click on install, click on apply.
Look ma, all from a gui!, and I didn't even need to manually download it!
Like I said, the 90s called and want their FUD back.

Originally Posted by ioioio View Post
The Windows Registry is a mess, it should have been junked a long time ago
Fact is, there are some settings that can only be modified through it (take a look at the microsoft knowledge base), and it ain't pretty. It surely isn't better than hand editing some settings in a clearly documented text file.

Originally Posted by ioioio View Post
, they just keep it for backward compatibility, as if Vista was ever backward compatible with XP. At least its a GUI, I don't have to go to the command line and type --regedit /newkey HKLM/Software/....etc.
Oh, if that's the problem, nobody forces you to use vi, you can always use kate, kwrite, gedit to edit configuration files. Hey, it's a gui editor, right?


Originally Posted by ioioio View Post
That's exactly how I feel when I go into the command line, like I'm using something from the 90's.
That could be true in the early 90s, nobody is forcing you to do it anymore with any sane, contemporary distro.

Originally Posted by ioioio View Post
And with that I think I'm officially exiled from the Linux/Unix/Maemo/GNU/ARM/etc. community. I hate Vista, so I guess that only leaves me with XP to send my asylum application to.
If it works for you, more power to you, nobody is forcing you to switch....Oh, wait.
 

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