Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:44:44
Message-Id: 20140617204417.GB24559@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding? by Mick
1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:52:21PM +0100, Mick wrote
2 > On Sunday 15 Jun 2014 20:37:46 Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >
4 > >
5 > > Not too sure really how wear and tear translates to real life;
6 > > overall it's probably just simple bloat you have, to borrow Walter's
7 > > analogy you started with a sub-compact and now have a ginormous SUV!
8 >
9 > I think that's call progress. ;-)
10 >
11 > The Internet has grown and technology develops to deliver all this new
12 > functionality that lynx can't really provide.
13
14 Much of Firefox+Chrome+Webkit-gtk2 is not really necessary. It gets
15 added just the same.
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18 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
19 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications