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BeOS
puts Linux to shame over on we.hates-software.com.

Luke does mention a couple of BeOS annoyances, for which there are
solutions:

1. Workspaces. I had this problem myself, having gotten used to
   arrow-key macros in fvwm’s pager. Solution:
   Two parts, including a third-party tool—SpicyKeys, available from
   BeBits—and my own app, workspace.

   Basically, workspace is a shelltool that will allow you to
   increment or decrement your workspace #, or add some N
   (abs(N)>1) to the workspace #. So, if you have a 3×3
   workspace grid, you use SpicyKeys to set up some global macros; for
   example, map a Ctl-Alt-Left macro to run "workspace --",
   and so on:

   
C-A-Left: workspace --
C-A-Right: workspace ++
C-A-Up: workspace -= 3
C-A-Down: workspace += 3


2. The terminal sucks. Yep. (You should see the code. Believe
   me, nobody at Be wanted to touch that steaming pile, to add better
   VTxxx support, or fix the scrollback, or whatever.)

   Solution: Try ArpTelnet.