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Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome
An anonymous reader writes "In a recent Computerworld interview, Linus revealed that he's switched to Gnome — this despite launching a heavily critical broadside against Gnome just a few years ago. His reason? He thinks KDE 4 is a 'disaster.' Although it's improved recently, he'll find many who agree with this prognosis, and KDE 4 can be painful to use." There's quite a bit of interesting stuff in this interview, besides, regarding the current state of Linux development.
Yes, KDE and Gnome are pretty big names when it comes to window managers, but there are other worthy WMs out there too!
Windows, for example.
ersonally, KDE and Gnome both suck. They're both heavy-weight X-Window environments. I like XFCE better because it's simple, doesn't contain all of those "extra applications" I will never use, and is lightweight (IMHO).
So because a product has more features than you'll use it sucks?
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Linus, Gnome, and KDE in are in the title. I'm surprised no one's been compared to Hitler yet.
hmm, maybe they should host getthefacts.com on a linux box, cuz it's definitely down.
Your sig needs to be:
"I have a friggin laser on my head"
No tyrant thrives when every subject says no.
Yah, she is made from silicone, erm, silicium.
Oh yeah, because WinZip invented the ZIP format.
Sheesh.
start --> run --> cmd
/pub/firefox/releases/3.0.5/$OS/en-US
ftp ftp.mozilla.org
user = anonymous
passwd = your@email.com
cd
bin
get Firefox Setup 3.0.5.(exe/tar.gz)
bye
That wasn't so hard was it.
All points of time and space are connected.
Hey now! Perl 6 will come out a lot sooner than KDE 5 or Hurd! It rates only a 0.6 on the Duke Nukem Forever scale.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
All you need is "xterm &"
Seriously, if you want a really lean-and-mean setup, just regard your window manager as a way to launch as many shells as you want. Then run your programs from the command line. I continue to use windowmaker for this very purpose. No shiny file managers or flashy dialogs, but all the shell-opening action one could ever desire.
The disadvantage is that your PC will be so efficient that you won't bother upgrading it for ten years, and one day you will find out that everybody on the web expects you to use Javascript now. Sites that were once fast have slowed to a crawl thanks to their "Web 2.0" features, and Flash continues to be as awful as it ever was. Finally, you gnaw through your Ethernet cable and decide never to venture online again.
The tao of democracy: the government you can vote for is not the real government.
I'm suprised he didn't just write his own.
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done on the people who are still alive.
I don't really care about this thread, but having followed it down several layers and spending quite a bit of time reading it, I feel compelled to comment.
CarpetShark? You're a fucking jackass.
There we go, now the time is well-spent.
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