Linus Torvalds Switches to Gnome

[James Finstrom]

I would say kde4 was the vista of kde. To many changes and to much
flair pushed on people with no real classic mode. I got kde4 working
90% the way I wanted but there were still some things that I would
look cross eyed at.

On 1/24/09, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> this is the reality of the computing world really. technology does not
> exist for its own sake, but for the sake of supplying the need.
> windows linux apple OS2 wichever if it pisses people off it fails.
>
> Overall people really dont want to invest a horrible amount of time
> into making something work unless absolutely needed. i think that tis
> reality is soemthign ubuntu met incredibly well. they took a very good
> base and pacakge management system and put alot of polish into it and
> i think for most users its great..
>
> but in the end i see RH/CentOs/SUSE being the business favored
> backend, for now.. and that only because of RPM more than anything
> else.. there are some things that just get easier to do with an RPM
> than rolling a script and sorting it out. i may be smark, but i lack
> the special patience that a decent programmer needs, and therfore i
> look for thigns that others have built and assemble them as needed.
>
> This is a reality of the world, even in somsone who has the codeing
> familiarity with linux as Torvaldis he still breaks down to a point
> where it makes his life easier to work in the same way...
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  James, there are a lot of clear advantages to using the Ubuntu
>> distro.  For starters its far more stable than Kubuntu.
>>
>>  I used to be a Kubuntu guy, but I just gave into Ubuntu, its the
>> easiest way for me to run Linux, plus its an easy sell to a manager,
>> etc.  Even though we all value choice, sometimes you just gotta get
>> with the program.
>>
>>  -jmz
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM, James Finstrom
>> <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
>>> I was a kde user and still like and use a lot of kde apps. I fought
>>> the gnome thing because I didn't like the feel and noo need to mess
>>> with it when I have kde. Well after the ubuntu 8.10 presentation I
>>> noticed I was missing several of ubuntus toys that didn't get rolled
>>> in to kubuntu so I decided to install gnome. After about 5 minutes I
>>> had it looking and feeling like my friend kde so I got to have my cake
>>> and eat it too this is the true beauty of linux. I have kdm installes
>>> still but haven't signed in to it since I made the gnome leap
>>>
>>> On 1/24/09, Tuna <tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
>>>> You just lit a blaze in a fireworks factory, my friend.
>>>>
>>>> FLAMEWAR OH SHI-
>>>>
>>>> Jason wrote:
>>>>> I'm shocked it took him so long to wisen up...isn't he a genius? :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 16:17 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>>>>> I'm shocked.  -jmz
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F24%2F1842218&from=rss
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