| 1 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
| 2 |
Hash: SHA1 |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
On 08/23/13 15:25, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: |
| 5 |
> On 23.08.2013 13:42, the wrote: |
| 6 |
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 |
| 7 |
>> |
| 8 |
>> On 08/23/13 13:21, Stroller wrote: |
| 9 |
>>> |
| 10 |
>>> On 22 August 2013, at 17:08, hasufell wrote: |
| 11 |
>>>> … I was arguing from both sides. It is buggy, crashes a lot, |
| 12 |
>>>> consumes a lot of ressources and is able to slow down your |
| 13 |
>>>> whole desktop, mess with audio settings and whatnot. |
| 14 |
>>> |
| 15 |
>>> My granny never had these problems, using Skype on her PC. |
| 16 |
>> I can assure you that skype consumes tremendous amount of ram. |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
> Not defending Skype in any way, but tremendous is not calculable. |
| 19 |
> In these words, e.g. KDE consumes even more tremendous amounts. So |
| 20 |
> what, stop using KDE now? |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
That's what I did. |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
> As to bugs, don't think Skype has more bugs than KDE. Crashes, |
| 25 |
> slowdowns and UI troubles - KDE is plentiful with them. Stop using |
| 26 |
> KDE now? And it would be interesting to see a program (somewhat |
| 27 |
> more complex than printf('%s', 'Hello world'); ) which does not |
| 28 |
> suffer from all these issues. The main criterion of quality of |
| 29 |
> software is whether it suits users' needs. All that "technical" |
| 30 |
> stuff is about talking. The user never sees the code, rarely sees |
| 31 |
> the resource utilization, and what he observes most of the time is |
| 32 |
> the result of using the software. If the user manages to achieve |
| 33 |
> his goal, the software is successful. If not, the quality of code |
| 34 |
> and UI and resource consumption matter nothing. The advanced user |
| 35 |
> will probably aim at minimizing RAM usage, improving UI, opening |
| 36 |
> the source code etc. but after all software quality is only the |
| 37 |
> users' perceived matching of expectations with results. |
| 38 |
|
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
- -- |
| 41 |
Stop talking and start compiling. |
| 42 |
Linux user #557897 |
| 43 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- |
| 44 |
Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) |
| 45 |
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ |
| 46 |
|
| 47 |
iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSF3aeAAoJEK64IL1uI2haQskH/3SiYoZu4CxHym16Xz+748Xs |
| 48 |
+yjc/COfmAbxd5Xguaa+u5Ug5KyXalaQYbjpTYmcrTMP7lMT13ia3Hfa2UAAz5dw |
| 49 |
DPE9FQq8CM2vKlh0fIEoDjwvVDNiC9Y/dUfAa7Rs/8yw5Vk4o0Ecq5pVDVwjv3a3 |
| 50 |
fqc8l6PXytAKUSFmED+ZbYWg/tY4kZJVGFbjGRac2OJMfxD4LwZ5Vd4AAw2PXegt |
| 51 |
Oo+ZE6mgLuE+k1PyaSfaTRihJwuN9YScaHhO5e3JvomfwO4LLNTsV5gqTY01O1gM |
| 52 |
BoPyIaiktLba8HXYsaeU0mWvQNLsymSsaizYIgwD+UJlKOjjRqC1Lz8O7QDLlxc= |
| 53 |
=bNzs |
| 54 |
-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
Archives