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Couldnt resist adding my 2p |
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I prefer to spend my "configuring time" ie. admin on the Big picture |
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eg. setting up mail, apache, firewall, ....... |
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For the little things eg. desktop background one click icons to start |
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daily apps and so on I am happy to let others give me a pleasent |
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default. |
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So what this means for me is that I sort configs in a text editor of |
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choice [Vim] and let the KDE team do all the rest for me. I have |
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learnt that no matter how much you think you know about linux there |
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are always 10 levels of detail lower that you dont know so spend time |
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on the things you really care about rather than editing a long config |
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in order to gain a font in a light window manager. |
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for example, |
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I want to download the latest Gentoo live CD via bittorrent [save the |
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good peoples bandwidth] do I |
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a) Go for a console bittornado client and spend some time learning the |
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various flags/switchs in order to do this. |
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b) Have a ready GUI client in KDE that is start, paste, wait. No |
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thought required. |
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Prehaps not a great example but the principle is there . |
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Anyway long and short of this is that KDE fully bloated for me :] |
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stu |
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ps. I have noticed that on average with KDE running plus bagful of |
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usual apps and daemons I have around 130 process's running with Gnome |
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it used to be around 160, may not mean much I guess but just a small |
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observation. |
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pps.. oo oo forgot to say, nautilus chews the horses and knonqueror is |
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lovely [even if I can never spell it correctly :P ] |
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On 20/01/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:00:51 +0200, Paul wrote: |
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> > my findings with KDE is that its bloadware |
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> > if I wanted bloat , I'd run windows |
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> > Gnome-lite is just that , light |
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> So a small part of GNOME is less bloated than all of KDE? That's a |
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> revelation! |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Life Support System Failure - Reboot Patient (Y/n)? |
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"There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand |
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binary, those who don't" |
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--Unknown |
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