The choice of wording might have something to do with language skills,
though Marcos's english is pretty good, the more subtle aspect of
correct vibe are hard to get right in a foreign language. I may also
sound disparaging in german or hungarian and certainly do in Russian.
I can just see an smack announcement by me in russian, given my 'where
metro?', 'where bathroom?' knowledge of the language ;-)
Loki
On 9/12/05, tim hall <tech@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Sunday 11 September 2005 23:38, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 19:23 +0200, Marcos Guglielmetti wrote:
> > > 9 Desktops: it is well known that Gnome and KDE are really bad for
> > > JACK audio
> > > work
> >
> > Rubbish. With a decent kernel there's absolutely no reason not to use
> > these.
>
> It's not entirely rubbish. If you run older low-spec machines, using lighter
>
> weight WMs does make a difference. It is not true or fair to say that GNOME
>
> and KDE are 'really bad', however. If you have a fairly modern box, it
> doesn't make much difference what your favourite Desktop Environment is.
>
> It might be better for the promotion of Musix not to be so disparaging about
>
> other distros. The project sounds interesting, but the wording of the
> announcement has put me off a bit.
> --
> cheers,
>
> tim hall
> http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
>
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