8:05 PM, Jun 5, 2003 
6/5/2003 9:05 PM
After a very long time, I just installed LiteStep again. I just reinstalled windows, because of some inexplicable stability problems I was having. That all seems to have cleared up now. For a week or so, I have been using the boring, monumentally useless, stiflingly unconfigurable interface, until I have everything lined up the way I want it. I was tired of waiting, so I just went ahead and installed it.
Previously, I was using GeoShell, which is very nice, fast, and easy to use, but it still has too many rough edges for me. Some of my games would screw up nastily when I loaded them from within GeoShell. Prior to that(and still, on my laptop) I was using Blackbox for Windows. It's an X11-based window manager, that was quite masterfully ported to windows, and has a very pretty, easy to use interface. It's also probably the fastest windows shell I've ever used, but it doesn't like my games, either, and have a few assorted quirks, which I guess are just bugs.
Before that, I used a very old version of LiteStep that, while frill-free, was very fast, and got the job done exceptionally well. I liked it so much that I used it for about a solid three years, until the idea of other windows shells became too alluring. Anyway, the moral of this story is: Kill your desktop.
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