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KDE Wins 3 awards
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Actually, these are X related problems
having to restart before the screen resolution changes i can accept, the font in konqueror i'll give a maybe, but you're telling me that they couldn't have put the resolution setting in a more intuitive place (like maybe with the rest of the desktop settings)?
i'm going to suffer for this but...
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KDE Wins 3 awards
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kde *is* getting better, but compared to winxp's interface? forget arguments about the underlying os (it's stable, ok!) or fisher price looks (you *can* turn them off!), just the physical organisation of the various functions.
when i first installed kde2 it took me about five minutes to work out how to change the screen resolution and then i had to reset kde before it took effect. and don't get me started on the default setup's choice of font in konqueror.
the only thing that kde could win on is virtual desktops, but now that winxp can be patched to support these, it's getting left behind.
but like i said, it's getting better. at least linux developers are finally getting over those fucking 'where do you want to go tommorow?' cracks and are starting to create good looking AND useable windows managers.
still, well done to the kde team and best of luck for v3.
old concept, new operating systems, as the quote below shows. hardly worth all the fuss though.
I've done a ZX81 emulator running on a Spectrum emulator running on a Mac emulator running on an Amiga emulator running on a 333 MHz PC. The Spectrum runs at about 10% normal speed, but the Mac goes almost as fast as the Mac emu straight on the PC. This is due to the way the Mac emu works on an Amiga - they both share the same processor, and so a lot of the emulation can be bypassed for the Mac to directly use the Amiga's CPU.
aren't willing to spend $300 (retail price of win2k) on an operating system,
you don't want to spend that then don't. let's make it quite clear that nobody's forcing you.
aren't willing to spend $1000 (retail price of a box powerful enough to run WinXP) on a new computer
nobody is forcing you to upgrade either. never mind that a computer bought during the last year should be fine, as would a new one bought from the ~$700 price bracket.
do not want all our personal information to be belong to Microsoft
look at the paranoid man, mummy!
frequently use apps that use libraries (e.g. Cygwin) that run fine under Win2k and Win98/ME but not WinXP
whenever you upgrade just about anything you have to accept that there will be some things that don't work anymore. backward compatibility is nice, but look at the crippling effect it had on win95. if there's enough demand for it then i'm sure an xp compatible version will be released. or why don't you just stick with linux?
yah. at work we had a batch of 10 epic computers, all with 10gig fujitsu drives. over a period of two months each and every hard drive failed. completely. couldn't get anything out of them.
shadow ram was only sold as a 20k upgrade, and as it took over the video memory, you only gained the whole benefit if you were using a video mode that required 20k of memory. if you were in mode 7 you were effectively using a computer with 33k of ram.
and with the shadow ram enabled you couldn't write directly to the video memory any more, but had to use the 'official routines', which were slow to the point of uselessness. and how many games/apps went 'invisible' because of that?
do you remember all the apps that used to come on those 16k roms? interword, wordwise etc...
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having to restart before the screen resolution changes i can accept, the font in konqueror i'll give a maybe, but you're telling me that they couldn't have put the resolution setting in a more intuitive place (like maybe with the rest of the desktop settings)?
when i first installed kde2 it took me about five minutes to work out how to change the screen resolution and then i had to reset kde before it took effect. and don't get me started on the default setup's choice of font in konqueror.
the only thing that kde could win on is virtual desktops, but now that winxp can be patched to support these, it's getting left behind.
but like i said, it's getting better. at least linux developers are finally getting over those fucking 'where do you want to go tommorow?' cracks and are starting to create good looking AND useable windows managers.
still, well done to the kde team and best of luck for v3.
there's fuckloads of voices on at least 7.5.3, possibly earlier
all you have to do is wait for this link to become live....BIZ TROLL
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...because when i'm really fucking stoned i keep forgetting which channel i'm watching...
polynomials will starve it to death
how's quack 3 run then?
mod entire thread down as off-topic!
wtf was wrong with just marking it 'freeware'?
score -1 : nobody likes a smartarse
...hang on, it's encrypted. i'll just be a second...
two words: p0rn popups
there is a dark side of the moon. and pink floyd should be made to stay on it.
what if it had been a picture of a bisexual in front of the swings?
aren't willing to spend $300 (retail price of win2k) on an operating system,
you don't want to spend that then don't. let's make it quite clear that nobody's forcing you.
aren't willing to spend $1000 (retail price of a box powerful enough to run WinXP) on a new computer
nobody is forcing you to upgrade either. never mind that a computer bought during the last year should be fine, as would a new one bought from the ~$700 price bracket.
do not want all our personal information to be belong to Microsoft
look at the paranoid man, mummy!
frequently use apps that use libraries (e.g. Cygwin) that run fine under Win2k and Win98/ME but not WinXP
whenever you upgrade just about anything you have to accept that there will be some things that don't work anymore. backward compatibility is nice, but look at the crippling effect it had on win95. if there's enough demand for it then i'm sure an xp compatible version will be released. or why don't you just stick with linux?
what the fuck? ms god rid of the need for those reboots back in *win2000*
yah. at work we had a batch of 10 epic computers, all with 10gig fujitsu drives. over a period of two months each and every hard drive failed. completely. couldn't get anything out of them.
how can the drivers be the same? win98 and nt4 have a completely different driver model.
i take it that the keycombo you mentioned works for any type of resource: folders, pictures, webpage urls etc...
with a modern processor, hardware acceleration of dvds is a non-issue.
hardware acceleration of divx encoding on the other hand...
shadow ram was only sold as a 20k upgrade, and as it took over the video memory, you only gained the whole benefit if you were using a video mode that required 20k of memory. if you were in mode 7 you were effectively using a computer with 33k of ram.
and with the shadow ram enabled you couldn't write directly to the video memory any more, but had to use the 'official routines', which were slow to the point of uselessness. and how many games/apps went 'invisible' because of that?
do you remember all the apps that used to come on those 16k roms? interword, wordwise etc...