Posted by member 12025 on 2004-06-02 15:14:05 link
-LS has unparalleled flexibility amongs the shells...to the point that you can never do as much as you want, but you can still do more than others allow. The closest being Aston, which ain't free. Seranade seems to be coming along well, too.
-Geekliness, in the same sense as manliness. You have to edit TEXT FILES. The best module that LS has, that I can no longer live without, is a COMMAND LINE.
-Flexibility Part II: you can practically make what you want out of LS. Make a bar, make a box, make an itty bitty thing that's just a couple square-ish dots...all the same to the core, and to several modules. You should be able to have aspirations for a theme that just can't be met, but you can still do a lot.
Try out GeoShell, BB4win (BBLean to make your LS seem really slow), Carbon, Seranade...and come back after just not being able to do as much. LS just let's you cram insane functionality into reasonably compact visual space, and more than anything, it offers you more control over how pieces look and act than other shells. Where others try to give you a new desktop paradigm, LS just sits there as a plug-in manager, passing a few shell calls through here and there, letting the modules do 99% the real work (as far as usefulness, anyway) independently.
To top it off, the core is solid and mature (BB4Win can also match this, though), having very few compatability issues, which some other shells still posess.
-Geekliness, in the same sense as manliness. You have to edit TEXT FILES. The best module that LS has, that I can no longer live without, is a COMMAND LINE.
-Flexibility Part II: you can practically make what you want out of LS. Make a bar, make a box, make an itty bitty thing that's just a couple square-ish dots...all the same to the core, and to several modules. You should be able to have aspirations for a theme that just can't be met, but you can still do a lot.
Try out GeoShell, BB4win (BBLean to make your LS seem really slow), Carbon, Seranade...and come back after just not being able to do as much. LS just let's you cram insane functionality into reasonably compact visual space, and more than anything, it offers you more control over how pieces look and act than other shells. Where others try to give you a new desktop paradigm, LS just sits there as a plug-in manager, passing a few shell calls through here and there, letting the modules do 99% the real work (as far as usefulness, anyway) independently.
To top it off, the core is solid and mature (BB4Win can also match this, though), having very few compatability issues, which some other shells still posess.