hi all, my thing is simple i have all these friends who say this and that about ls, and i'm like a dye-hard ls-er although i'm a newbee. but i dont have anything to tell them when they come up to me with all that try aston stuff. so does anyone know the facts? coz i wanna know.

gonzales

ls or not ls... that is the question...

-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.

lol @ the geekliness comment

well thats a load of info. the geekliness part i like. i havent gotten around to theme buildin yet but i feel the flexibility. i've downloaded a couple of themes and i think theyre great. ls just keeps changin but no matter the theme, it still works.
too cool.