On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:53 -0700 Jimmy Johnson <field.engin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/2014 10:12 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:59:44 -0700 > > Jimmy Johnson <field.engin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 10/17/2014 08:44 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > >>> On 10/17/2014 10:22 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> What's the hurry, Squeeze is good until 2016, we have plenty of > >>>> time to test other init-systems. > >>> > >>> You use KDE. Where you there when KDE3 became KDE4 and broke our > >>> hearts? What a flame fest that was. Yet, you use it now? Ah! Time > >>> must have finally smoothed the rough edges. Yet, KDE4 happened no > >>> matter what any of us had to say, and I was royally jerked about > >>> it. Gnome went through the very same cycle. So did Ubuntu with all > >>> of the lens (IMHO) junk. Every one of those projects were driven > >>> top-down. We users just got pulled along. > >> > >> > >> Yes! I was at the KDE4 release at Google what fun..I also helped > >> with Trinity, Linux is about diversity and Debian has always been > >> the leader. > > > > Whoa guys, slow down on the generalizations. Don't assume everyone > > uses KDE4. Two years ago I kicked KDE, in its entirety, libraries > > and all, off all my computers. It's an entangled monolith and a > > danger to computing. The time might come when I need to do the same > > with Gnome. Don't assume that users just bend over and take this > > entangled junk. > > > Debian KDE4 has been manageable, nothing but a bunch of meta-packages > remove what you don't need and then use 'aptitude keep-all' to keep > the app's and then 'upgrade-system' to cleanup the crud. Some of the > best minds use KDE. ;) LOL, in that case, consider me one of the worst minds. With my special set of hotkeys, I've tweaked my Openbox to break the sound barrier. :-) SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141018023627.471af...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
