Robin Turner, > Actually, KDE does that, it just has a very weird idea about > what programs I use (presumably because it tracks the programs > I open from the menu, rather than icons or the command line - > in other words the programs I use least!).
Yes - while not aware of that particular problem I am aware of cumbersome attempts to make everything more Windows like. Mistake i think. I am only into Linux for about 6 weeks but am disappointed how hard it is. Not the installation, not the gui so much as making things work. The DVD, the scanner, the infrared, the CD-burner, the printer. The easier the surface is the harder it is to grasp the underlying complexity. I would like to have better education about the cli ... well the education is there but the hype is that it is getting easier to do Linux. I find some things really work beautifully from the cli - but it is being obscured by layers of gui which dont work as well and also by the expectation that a gui will do it just because it is there - that is only sometimes the case. The design questions are huge - and the beauty is that someone will come up with yet another distribution that might just surpass the rest - not because they are more Windows like but because the are proud of being Unix like. In the way we are proud of our complex languages and do not, try to make English into French - and even maintain American, UK versions as well as other varieties. Perhaps there is already such a distribution? Debian? Walter -- Walter Logeman Psychotherapist http://www.psybernet.co.nz -- Walter Logeman Psychotherapist http://www.psybernet.co.nz
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