On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:11:43AM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > from SuSE 8.2 to 9.0. In the new distro, most of the Gnome apps that > I loved before suddenly seemed to be dumbed down to the point I really > started to dislike them, and I just removed them form my system.
Agree completely. It gets dumber and dumber. Options I *like* and *use* disappear in each release. Meanwhile dumb stuff appears and I can't figure out how to do simplish things. I'm using KDE now for about a week, and I can't say I like it THAT much better. Sigh. XP may have it's problems, but the UI is fast, the file browser works 99.99% of the time, and stuff just works. I know Linux people love to claim how choice is our strength, but I think it's bunk. Linux needs a single GUI environment that has a lot of deep flexibility (and I don't mean Scheme config files :) and a single widget kit, bound to all the languages. A freshly installed linux box is a horrible mess, these days. Hundreds of megs of disk spent on crap that the vast majority of people don't even know is there.