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> The state of WMs on Linux is really, really more complicated than it needs to be.

Choice is always going to be a prominent force in Linux. There will always be folks who are going to write new toolkits and apps and there they will find users who would want to promote it. That is just the nature of Open source.

That being said I think no one really likes to use GTK+ app if they are targeting multiple desktop environment and operating system. Ubuntu's Unity 8 and KDE both are using Qt and Qt is already available on all possible platforms including Android.

What are in your opinion the best apps for Linux?

The free version doesn't come with wild card. So if you run multiple stuff off your VPS you will have to upgrade. I currently use self-signed certificate for everything except when I serve content to public I switch to http.

I have been looking into setting up SSL for my blog. There currently no free way to get SSL certificates. There are some free ones but they tend to come with strings and lure you into paid plans. I am not sure if this proposal is the best.

They both are great browser. I am not trying to say one is good and other is bad. What I am trying to say is that because of the reasons mentioned above it has been hard for me to adopt to Firefox. Chrome is Google's platform they want to push their services and has become more of an application platform with Chrome only apps and less of a browser. I would like a browser that promotes a free web.

For example, Diigo's addon doesn't have overlay icon so it is impossible for me to tell if I have already bookmarked a page or not. Like many addons on Firefox Diigo has both sidebar and toolbar. So basically they have developed 3 UI elements and none of which work well. There is clearly Diigo's fault here but applications are as good as platform.

I have been running Firefox for almost a month now. The divide between firefox and Chrome is getting bigger and bigger.

1. What do you guys think about sidebars and multiple toolbars? There is only a limited space available on screens these days for most people. I find them very archaic.

2. Dropdown arrows - I also don't understand the purpose of actually showing that if you click here a menu will open. A folder expands when you click it. There is nothing to be said about it.

3. Lack of overlay icons. There is literally a block with yellow background which shows number.

4. Lack of interest in devs to innovate on Firefox. There is a difference in versions of Evernote webclipper for Firefox and Chrome. Diigo extension is in atrocious condition.

Why do you think a solid browser like Firefox is lagging behind in UI compared to Chrome?

For 5 bucks you could host WordPress, ownCloud, ZNC, and more stuff.

Well said. I have been trying out ZNC for a few days. It wasn't really a fun to setup ZNC. There are things that I just don't understand. ZNC comes with a bunch of modules that you could use to extend its functionality. It is really hard for me to understand those when I am new to both Bouncers and IRC. Then there are no standards. ZNC uses a username but IRC doesn't really have a concept of username. It is usually Channel, Nick, and password. IRC also has concepts like Ident which are hard for general users to understand. I have setup ZNC but the setup is not complete yet.

I am not well aware of history of XMPP and IRC. I wonder if lack of interest in the organizations that control these protocols have lead to numerous versions of them that there are today. Slack has an IRC gateway and Facebook uses XMPP. Both of these protocols are widely used but have becomes too different from the core concept.

I really wish that other services would be like this. You enter text in a few popular markup languages and not one specific language.

I am in a position where I know a little of Markdown and a little of reStructuredText. Considering the little time I have and I have to learn a language I would want to learn something that is extensible. Isn't that a valid reasoning?

It seems they call custom domain as custom URL and don't allow it with free account.

Free account doesn't have domain aliases. Does that mean I can't use [email protected] and [email protected] all pointing to one inbox?

Since they allow 10 users with each 5gb inbox that means I have 10 different inboxes that can be [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected].

No custom url? Does that mean no custom domain allowed?

I have had nothing but great experience with Namecheap.

What did you learn out of it?