Tag: desktop

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Desktop originally refers literally to the surface of a desk. The noun has been adopted as an adjective to distinguish among office appliances which can be fitted on top of a desk, as contrasts with a larger piece of equipment which covers its own area on the floor. Examples are:

    * A desktop photocopier, a smaller photocopier for individual use, compared with professional models.
    * A desktop computer, a personal computer that is designed to fit on a desktop.

The information technology term desktop may refer to:

    * Desktop computer, as distinguished from a notebook (laptop) computer
    * A specific style of computer case, also known as a "pizza box"
    * The area behind the windows in the desktop metaphor or computer user interfaces
    * Desktop environment, software that provides a comprehensive computer user interface
    * A client piece of software is sometimes referred to as desktop to distinguish it from server

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop

If you are in IT professionally (coding or sysadmin) you will be staring at monospaced fonts for many many hours a day. So it's probably justified to spend 2 minutes picking a very good one. It can make your work (typing ; ) just a little bit more pleasing.

Following Alan Pope and Christer Edwards, I too felt the need to log everything I that I setup right after an Ubuntu Desktop install. It ranges from customizing the user interface to setting up a programmers IDE. It's mainly for future reference by myself, but may bring you on a couple of ideas as well.