2012/2/13 Ingo Klöcker <kloec...@kde.org>
> Are there more important reasons than "it scares Windows users"? Windows > does already run so many services on its own. Why do a few more > processes matter? Why do the users care anyway? IMNSHO, they should stop > looking at their task manager or process explorer and simply use the > applications. Or not use them if they are too scared. Did any Linux user > complain about too many running processes? > > Replace "it scares Windows users" with "it scares IT departments" and you've got it. The reason? A dozen processes randomly started, IPC with no security at all, makes difficult to upgrade/kill/know when to update applications, and many more. I'm not making this out, this has already happened to me. > If those few processes do already bother them then I guess they will go > completely nuts if they see that KMail+Akonadi runs 10+ processes. > Exactly. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
