Not so long ago, I upgraded my laptop to 128MB, and thought I had the
world by the hair. Now I am considering an upgrade to a 2gb system.
Bloat? who? us?
On 03/31/2011 03:39 PM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Greg Madden wrote:
>
>> Apologies to all, esp Arthur. Humour doesn't play out well on the list, at least
>> not my attempt.
>>
>> I am not liking the direction GNU/linux is headed. My perspective is user space,
>> new software introduces new bugs and regressions. I don't see the point in stuff
>> that once worked no longer working, or taking more time and/or resources to do.
>> The KDE4& now Gnome3 Juggernauts are good examples.
>>
>> I do think Gnome3 is aimed at ex Windows users. It is getting harder to keep your
>> hands on the keyboard to do work, that mouse thing is taking over.
>>
>> I am not into Desktop Environments, but do appreciate latest versions of core
>> applications for my work. Catch 22?
> You have my sincerest apologies (they're graded according to quality back at
> the factory) if I missed the tongue-in-cheek, bit. The whole systemd has
> been gnawing at me for some time now, and I'm accustomed to being told to
> "shut up and get out of the way of progress!". And, being prickly by
> nature, I had the abestos underwear on and the flamethrower in hand.
>
> My laptop being a meager 700MHz w/256MB of RAM I've recently just jumped
> ship onto fluxbox. It's a tad heavier than vtwm, but it's very keyboard
> friendly, and fairly configurable. I can't imagine trying to run the latest
> Gnome/KDE/Unity/Whatever on that poor little thing. I'd never be able to
> kick away from the bottom of my swap...
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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