What a great rant!! I was on my way to look for a video on HULU.... I enjoyed this much more. I think Win7 is one of the best OS's ever made. I started with DOS 2.11 and stayed with DOS until 95 when I was forced to use it. In 2000 I used Linux for 8 months and then went back to Windows. In 2006 I used Linux for about 3 months and went back to Windows. Mostly because I need IE for testing. I hated IE in Wine. I've been using Kubuntu as my main system for 5 or 6 months. I think it will stick this time. It has been a pain making the switch. I still need to load Windows in a virtual machine so I can have everything on one machine. No time and no energy to do so at this time. I stay with Kubuntu because I know at some point I am really going to forced to switch over to Linux any way. I have a laptop running Win7. I use it to test with IE and to use Go-To_Meetings which does not work on Linux for some reason. Since my two large screens are connected to my Linux box I am unable to enjoy NetFlix until I get a vmachine set up with Windows. In summary I would say that each have their strong points. I like some of the things about Kubuntu and I like other things about Windows. If I could combine them I would. On 2014-06-21 16:02, joe@actionline.com wrote: > Brian last wrote (in very small part ;) >> Re: KDE ... these days it's quite small. > > Brian, your comments (and advice and guidance) are always especially > helpful and very, very much appreciated. > > I, too, much prefer KDE and Mint to the many other distros that I have > tried. Sometimes, I get very frustrated with changes that they make > that > often seem to me to create a frustrating nuisance and make things worse > than the way things were before the change. I do *despise* everything > about nepomuk and akonadi and never seem to have been able to totally > eliminate it from my systems. > > Also, for example, I really wish they would bring back the hide button > for the start line. > > Most annoying to me is when they force new things on us instead of just > giving the option to "opt-in" if we should choose to do so. > > Yet, all-in-all, I am just so incredibly thankful to not have to live > with that most horrific of all annoyances that is M$. Every time I have > to try to help my dear bride with her M$ box, I praise God again that I > don't have to contend with that. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss