[ILUG] Linux on a netbook

[Arnaud Disant]

On 8 Feb 2011, at 01:00, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> A Dimarts, 8 de febrer de 2011, FRLinux va escriure:
>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>>> Don't get me wrong, I know KDE software is not be the best ever and even
>>> if it was it might not be of your liking since it's impossible pleasing
>>> everyone, but saying "don't get me started on foo..." and not giving any
>>> single reason is imho just classical FUD.
>> 
>> Ah well, let us go into some facts then shall we. Been a big KDE fan
>> from version 1, used it for many years (that dates back from 97),
>> absolutely loved KDE 3.x being the best version in my opinion.
>> 
>> Then came 4, the deal breaker for me had to be my dual screen setup
>> not handled right anymore whereas any other WM, XFCE and fluxbox to
>> name two, worked flawlessly. I waited quite some time before making
>> the transition onto KDE 4 back then, i believe it was 4.2 i tested.
>> 
>> I loved most of the 4 new layout, I hated all the functionalities lost
>> in the process, amarok being another example of good player gone bad.
>> So in short, as free software is about choice, i chose no longer to
>> use KDE and mostly use XFCE these days.
> 
> Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
> 
> Albert
Let's share thoughts then... All this only proves you are two old grumpy users who never managed to get use to it... It has lost this and that... 1997, well there has been water under the bridges fellahs, new software etc... Like any brew it has good and bad years all right... Correct me, if I am wrong, but this discussion started with Gnome malfunctioning right, then Q.E.D ... I am probably as "old" as you are but I keep on my toes ( and my hairs too BTW) and never take anything for granted. For as much as I understand the frustration, Steph has a point, maybe Albert should consider LTS over a cutting edge version? 

I felt this all thread might put off some people. KDE is not worse than any other GUI it even tend to be a tad simpler from a newbie point of view... All this of course said with the greatest respect for my fellow Linux users especially those I have shared with some very interesting conversation about advocating linux since October 1998 in GW2K :-)

R.no
> 
>> 
>> There, you have the long FUD, enjoy.
>> Steph
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