Re: Frustration made me do it.
I agree Nuno Magalhães;
I use to use KDE, I loved the incredible functionality and customization you got from it. Now I've switched to Lxde, not because I like it, but because KDE4 is complete tripe, sure it looks pretty, but there is really no customization to it, which background image do you want, and that's it. With KDE3 you could take two colors, make an effect, overlay an image, and do a transparency or color shift all on the fly, and it was efficient. Now you got this plasma crap that eats resources like their M&M's whether you use it or not.
Granted the little tools docked on your desktop is nice, at first, but in the long run they don't get used and it comes down to a nice eye candy interface, where every desktop looks just the same.
On a more personal scale I also used KDE because I didn't like trying to Guess which menu system 'dialogue box' an option was in. The KDE control center was intuitive and well organized.
Linux Desktop Enviroments need to stop trying to compete to impress microsoft users and N00b's and stick to what Linux is all about, clean, efficient, FAST! If people really feel they NEED desktop widgets either make it add on software or make a third party desktop environment based off the main environment. The way it is now KDE and Gnome, the two biggest are competing for 'most bloat award' and the sleek fast environments like lxde are basing their systems off the giants so all the real customization of the past is just plain gone...
STOP LETTING N00b's DEFINE OUR OS!
Okay, I'm done...
-----Original Message-----
From: Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:42:01
To: debian-user<Debian-User@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Frustration made me do it.
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:45, Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
>> My machine
>> is an older desktop with only 1 Gb of RAM
Have big applications like office suites, internet browsers and the
like added so many more features that a "mere" 1GB of RAM doesn't
suffice?! Isn't Web2.0's structure mostly text-based? The bandwith
hogs are multimedia and that's out of the box.
I remember when i had a functioning windowmaker desktop with a 96MB
PII back in '99. Maybe they're comming out of school thinking
programming is IDE drag-n-drop and python-style "print this" programs.
I don't understand why must software grow with no added content, just
because the hardware is more capable. What's next, a 900MB simple text
editor?! But i never liked resource-hogs anyway.
</rant>
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