Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype
From: Tim Hockin (thockin_AT_hockin.org)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 02:55:10 EEST
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.
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