[Techtalk] Best substitute for Scientific Linux?

[Michael Carson]

It sounds like you're looking for a tiling window manager - I don't grok
them personally, but I hear one of the things people like about them is not
needing to use a mouse.

C.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 02:39 <mgmonza at iceland.freeshell.org> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> My mental home for the last six or so years was declared moribund in 2020
> and dead by November.  They pulled the plug on him November 30th, 2020.
> (hey, if the "Siri" I created is a breathy "Rouel", the "she" men use for
> objects can be a "he" in my book)
>
> That was the Fermilabs Scientific Linux system 6x.  I loved everything
> about it, but especially the way it catered to old keyboardists like me.
> Vim-like, my fingers rarely had to reach for the mouse with SciLin 6x.
>
> All of the recent downloads of the 64x (also moribund) versions of
> Scientific Linux have a ghastly desktop that requires this muriform
> intervention.
>
> Can anyone recommend a desktop environment that will let me select objects
> on a 'desktop' by typing in 'first to however many letters they need to
> make them unique'?  The latest Gnome for that 64x version of Scilinux
> ignores keyboard letters and an altogether different install of Mint does
> as well.  They won't even let me do an "alt/spacebar/m" to maximize!
>
> My flitting fingers and I thank you for considering this and for any
> suggestions you might have to solve it.
>
> MG
>
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