Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: GNOME and KDE about Themselves

  • Subject: Re: GNOME and KDE about Themselves
  • From: Rick <none@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:16:18 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy, rec.audio.pro, alt.os.windows-xp
  • Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com
  • References: <dp3o36$17v5$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk> <dp3pbc$bg3$1@domitilla.aioe.org>
  • User-agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.)
  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1066676 rec.audio.pro:834790 alt.os.windows-xp:429606
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:05:01 -0500, common cold wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:42:49 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> The GNOME and KDE sites have both come out with some evangelistic
>> articles today/yesterday:
>> 
>> http://dot.kde.org/1135910270/
>> 
>> http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2537
> 
> Dammed Linux users are a cult that is far worse than the moonies.

How long were you a moonie?

> 
> 
>> To anyone who is still unsure of which WM to use, these would be a
>> valuable read. In the first item, there is plenty to impress the reader
>> and OSS seems to be well ahead of any commercial, proprietary
>> equivalent.
> 
> It's a total waste of time and if you think Linux and OSS is ahead of
> commercial ventures you need to have your head examined by a competent
> doctor.

It depends on what the OP meant by  'well ahead'.

> 
> Linux is so confused and fragmented it's actually starting to self
> implode. 

Give some examples.

> You "freedom of choice" boobs are actually doing more harm than
> good with 400 different versions of Linux and who the hell knows how many
> different desktop environments.

How many viruses, worms and trojans are there infecting windows based
machines? How many are there infecting Linux based machines?

> Documentation scattered all over the place, much of it outdated and
> incorrect.
> 
> Linux = ball of confusion.

Only to the easily confused. That seems to be you.

-- 
Rick


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index