Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1

From	Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1
Date	2019-04-06 09:07 +0000
Organization	Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
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On 2019-04-06, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
>
>> Like (I suspect) many (most?) Unix users, I use the most appropriate
>> tool for the job, GUI or CLI. With a "desktop enviroment", I have the
>> choice. I presently have 5 GUI tools running and 4 CLI's on 4 desktops.
>
> I'm 4 for six.  And *no* "desktop environment".  X sits on top of
> Unix/Linux (so to speak) and a window manager sits on top of X. [1]
> A "desktop environment" puts yet another huge load (pun intended) of
> complexity on top of X in place of a simple window manager.  It brings
> with it all sorts of superfluous stuff that, AFAICT, is mostly there,
> as the OP opined, to make *ix "like Windoes". 

So what? Not everything about Windows is bad. Objecting to features
merely because they're "windows-like" is just yet another example
of the arrogance and hubris common among IT types 

>  An example is the
> "task bar". Once it's there, app devs require a task bar for their
> code to work.  The task bar is just another "do it our way because
> it's better and you'll like it" bit of chrome.

So don't do it their way. And, oh look, you don't. So you're
busily objecting to something you don't use. Illogical, much?

> Yeah, I'm being condescending to Huge here.  He deserves it given his
> intemperate and vulgar responses to folks to disagree with him.

People are welcome to disagree with me. What they are not welcome to
do is be arrogant, patronising and bigoted. What do you expect
in response, a bouquet? For example, your response (mostly) has
a reasoned argument to it, Rich's was just ignorant bigotry.


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Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-28 22:03 -0400
  Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-29 06:36 +0000
  Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-04-04 16:07 +0000
    Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-04 17:16 +0000
      Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-04 21:15 +0000
        Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-04 19:03 -0400
          Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-05 07:46 +0000
            Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-05 07:56 +0000
              Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-05 16:35 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-04-06 02:49 -0300
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-06 09:07 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-06 07:48 -0400
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-06 11:56 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-06 09:44 -0400
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-06 13:53 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-06 13:35 +0000
          Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-05 13:35 +0000
            Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-05 13:38 +0000
              Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-05 16:36 +0000
    Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2019-04-05 12:25 +0300
    Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-17 21:39 +0000
      Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-18 00:22 +0000
      Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-06-19 06:46 +0000

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