[Tfug] [stein.les at gmail.com: TCS General Meeting]

[Bowie J. Poag]

I wouldn't call it "coping".

I *would* call it, "putting up with a GUI that is so horrifyingly slow 
as to be a distraction, and a layer of uneeded, poorly-designed, 
poorly-thought-out fluff that gets in the way between me and the job 
that needs to be done."

Next time you see a window that takes a full second to draw, stop and 
think.  How many clock cycles, how many instructions did it take to draw 
that window? A billion? Two billion?  Once you begin to see things from 
that perspective, you will lose all respect for Win-clone desktops like 
GNOME and KDE, because it's horrifying. A Linux desktop doesn't have to 
be that way.

"Coping", as you put it, is admitting to the world that your standards 
are so low that you'll put up with anything, so long as it works. If 
that's the case, sell your car, and ride your lawnmower to work. Hey, 
why not? You're already doing the same thing with your computer.

Cheers,
Bowie




Brad Becker wrote:

>Yes, some distros deliberately use KDE to make an easier transition from  
>Win.  A number of the old skool linux guys have a hard time coping with  
>it.  Tough.
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>On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:53:44 -0700, Earl <earljviolet at juno.com> wrote:
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>>KDE is an easy transition from Windows. People don't like change,
>>especially older people. I know people who buy new computers and
>>quickly replace Win XP with Win 98 or Win Me because they know where
>>things are.
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