and I admit that the OSS folks seem to be intent on cloning it. I don't use GNOME or KDE simply because they are trying to reimplement Windows (which is a terrible terrbile thing to copy... do everything exactly opposite instead!
Hallelujah - thank you for saying something I've been wanting to say for a long time!
It has been very disappointing to see so many Linux distros trying to outdo M$ at being M$.
I abandoned Windows for the very reason that I was fed up with the bloated, resource-hogging, latency-distending, performance-hammering gui nonsense that makes Windows what it is.
How disappointing to see Xorg alone now topping 60mb, and the overkill "desktop environments" on top, striving to look and feel as much like Windows as possible.
I mean - what's the point?
Fortunately there are a lot of 'micro' distributions (Puppy, DSL, etc.) who are on the right track.
Give me Xvesa, evilwm and aterm any day.
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In it, the Almighty spoke to me and said:
"This is God, and I have already patented every thought you have ever thought, or ever will think
- and I've got one hell of a lawyer!"
Hallelujah - thank you for saying something I've been wanting to say for a long time!
It has been very disappointing to see so many Linux distros trying to outdo M$ at being M$.
I abandoned Windows for the very reason that I was fed up with the bloated, resource-hogging, latency-distending, performance-hammering gui nonsense that makes Windows what it is.
How disappointing to see Xorg alone now topping 60mb, and the overkill "desktop environments" on top, striving to look and feel as much like Windows as possible.
I mean - what's the point?
Fortunately there are a lot of 'micro' distributions (Puppy, DSL, etc.) who are on the right track.
Give me Xvesa, evilwm and aterm any day.