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First Looks at Suse 8.0 / KDE 3.0
The Register has a first look article on Suse 8.0 and KDE 3.0. Short story: they liked both, pretty much. I think the section on installation -- notably its length -- speaks volumes about the 'which is easier, Linux or MS' debate, too." There's also a review of the new SuSE up at Newsforge with some more details.
Why does the improved file-download window look a little too much like the one in Windows XP?
Is this what developers at KDE consider improved?
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake."...Tyler Durden
...because in my opinion, it's a fetid pile of Windows wannabe crap, and you can quote me on that. First, off, even choosing the "minimal" settings in the initial setup screens when you launch it for the first time, there is more useless graphical crap cluttering my workspace than even Windows. And WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE LITTLE ANIMATED ICONS NEXT TO THE MOUSE POINTER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Ye gods, if I wanted that crap, I'd have stuck with the Win98 Plus! that came installed with one of my machines. You can't even turn them off. How in the world can something like this, in an open-sourced window manager for goodness sake, be an option you can't turn off? Hint boxes popping up all over the damn place. Animated "working" hourglasses in the toolbar. Why not just copy the Windows interface whole? I can't even used it on my 266 iMac (running only YellowDog Linux 2.2) because there's so much flash that I CANNOT TURN OFF that it slows the machine down to a crawl whenever I so much as launch a terminal window. Gnome, however, runs like a top, and doesn't have all this mandatory idiocy associated with it.
I used to like KDE alot, but I'm definitely sworn off it, now. And hell, with Gnome I can run KDE apps, and don't have to deal with all the wasted memory and processor.
KDE 3, to hell with you.
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