Opera

I have been trying to find a way to get as much done with as few windows open as possible.  I think I now have found the one browser that will reduce my window count by at least two.

I have found Opera!  With a downloads tab and integrated torrent client, integrated email client and RSS reader, and the Google Calendar and ScribeFire extensions, I have all of the features I need in one window.

I am currently using a separate torrent client, because Opera currently has no support for magnet links or UPnP (the later is needed because of my piece of shit Verizon DSL modem/router), and I have to have a filemanager open, so I'm up to three windows, right?

Wrong!  Thanks to fluxbox, I can drag the titlebar of one window into the titlebar of another and merge the windows into tabbed windows.  So I really only have two windows, one for all of my internet activity and the file manager.

If I want to get my CLI freak on, I'll open a terminator window and split it into 4 consoles, for some quadro-commandline action.

So now, I can have 3 open windows and multi-task up to 10 tasks.  WTF?

Ubuntu & Unity

So, I finally got around to trying Ubuntu with Unity, and I must say it sucks out loud!

OMG, WTF?!?!

I'm going back to Debian, with IceWM or Fluxbox.  Hell, after dealing with Unity, I may just stick to the commandline and text-based apps.

I don't know what they were thinking, but I almost reinstalled Vista after dealing with that hot pile of dog mess.