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| From | Silver Slimer <maGNUm@lin.sux> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: Is that you, Snit? |
| Date | 2016-04-13 19:39 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <neml63$ake$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (9 earlier) <D332FFD4.6FB35%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <neldog$80u$6@dont-email.me> <D333E63E.6FBC6%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <nemd2r$d2l$1@dont-email.me> <D3342564.6FC0B%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> |
On 2016-04-13 7:33 PM, Snit wrote: > On 4/13/16, 2:21 PM, in article nemd2r$d2l$1@dont-email.me, "Silver Slimer" > <linux@sucks.balls> wrote: > > ... >>>> I only use open-source when the product is good. As it is, Firefox is >>>> pretty good. I read complaints that it doesn't render pages properly but >>>> I haven't found this to be the case and its extensions are way better >>>> than what the competition has to offer. It's a memory hog but I've >>>> noticed that you can help that if you play with the cache settings. >>> >>> On Windows I prefer Chrome, which is mostly open source, but Firefox is >>> pretty good, too. I agree it seems to be more of a memory hog than Chrome >>> or, on OS X, Safari - and I used to see all sorts of issues with it being >>> slow, but have played with it recently on OS X and Windows and do not see >>> that as much. >> >> Chrome is good but every time I use it, Google does something incredibly >> offensive which turns me off from them. I maintain a Youtube account >> though which is a Google service so I guess that makes me inconsistent. > > Well, you can dislike Google and try to reduce using them without avoiding > them entirely. I see nothing inconsistent about that. > > And I agree that Google is an evil company at this point. It's sad too because some of their products are awesome. Youtube, for one, revolutionized the Internet no matter how much people might downplay it. >>>> VLC is also a great product which I have no qualms about using. >>> >>> I use it but find that even with all of its 10,000 settings there are things >>> I think are basic settings which they should have but apparently do not - >>> like the ability to NOT show any subtitles by default. Also works a but >>> funky sometimes with the Apple remote (though that is better now than a year >>> or so ago). Still, it plays almost all media files and overall is a great >>> product - do not want to imply it is not. >> >> If it's open-source, it clearly doesn't work right no matter how many >> versions in you are. Still, it's OK. > > I like it because it plays just about anything I throw at it and plays it > well. OK, so I might have to manually turn of subtitles or otherwise fiddle > for a minute, but better than QuickTime which plays only a handful of file > types. I don't mind that the subtitles aren't immediately turned on. I'm just happy that they don't force them to be on. >>>> Thunderbird seemed good for a while as well but I've noticed that it is more >>>> than a little buggy for certain things. Other than that, I'm a lot more >>>> comfortable with proprietary solutions. >>> >>> I used to recommend Thunderbird but had far too many users have issues with >>> it losing mail and other significant problems. I no longer use it at all. >>> Maybe it has improved over the last couple of years? >> >> Open-source rarely improves. > > It does... just slowly... and generally with little focus, unless it is > under the control of a big corporation. Sadly. The only open-source which really improved is that produced by Mozilla and it is frankly debatable whether it has or not. People despise Firefox for instance even though I think it is rather good. -- Silver Slimer
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Re: Is that you, Snit? Silver Slimer <linux@shit.is> - 2016-04-14 17:12 -0400
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Re: Is that you, Snit? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-14 11:55 -0700
Re: Is that you, Snit? Silver Slimer <linux@shit.is> - 2016-04-14 17:08 -0400
Re: Is that you, Snit? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-14 15:34 -0700
Re: Is that you, Snit? Silver Slimer <fat.linux.loser@linux.is.sh.it> - 2016-04-12 14:47 -0400
Re: Is that you, Snit? "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.invalid> - 2016-04-12 23:45 +0000
Me Sham who is Snit is a total Ass Wipe! John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 04:34 -0700
Re: Me Sham who is Snit is a total Ass Wipe! Silver Slimer <linux@sucks.balls> - 2016-04-13 08:29 -0400
Me Sham who is Snit is a total Ass Wipe! John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 05:37 -0700
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