[ale] I really incredibly exponentially hate ubuntu unity

[Jay Lozier]

On 05/15/2012 11:10 PM, rhia wrote:
> I like top post Tuesday as well.
> And I really like Enlightenment as well, too.
> Ron, I feel your pain, which is why Ubuntu et al annoy me almost, but
> not quite, as much as the abomination from Redmond.
> I ran Slackware with a hybridized bastardized gnome/KDE/Enlightenment
> desktop setup for years and then switched over to Gentoo with a
> hybridized bastardized gnome/KDE/Enlightenment desktop setup.
> Yes, it took a while to work the bugs out.
> No, it's not something I would install on my parents' systems.
> However; once tweaked, and fiddled with, and tweaked some more, I have a
> system (and backup configs) that suits me and I can transport to new
> hardware or reinstall whenever needed. To me, that ability (to
> customize, tweak, fiddle with, etc) is why I prefer running the much
> more finicky? persnickety? Gentoo on my own systems. (Sadly, it's also
> why I dislike the Windows/Apple wannabes, but that might well start a
> distro war I'm not wanting to battle here and now.)
>
> ----
> rhia
IMHO, the advantage of Linux is one word: choice. If you do not like the 
default you can install and tweak so that you have a system that suits 
your needs. You can hate a DE but you can change it, often fairly 
easily. Try this with M$ or Apple, you can only do the tweaks they allow.
>
>
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 16:00 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> It's top post Tuesday....
>>
>> Enlightenment.  Build it from source.
>>
>>
>> On 05/15/2012 01:34 PM, Sparr wrote:
>>> The exceptionally premature adoption of kde 4.1 by most distros is what
>>> drove me to convert from kde to gnome a few years ago. Unity has driven
>>> me back to kde and I'm almost as happy with the latest kde as I was
>>> prior to 4.0
>>>
>>> On May 15, 2012 1:16 PM, "William Bagwell"<rb211 at tds.net
>>> <mailto:rb211 at tds.net>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>      On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>>       >snip (21 point rant)
>>>       >  Any help and advice is appreciated.
>>>
>>>      Can offer nothing more than condolances. What you so eloquently describe
>>>      mirrors my brief experience with KDE 4.X and explains why I am still
>>>      using a *four year old* distro as my daily desktop.
>>>
>>>      Waiting for some kind soul to port Trinity to Mandriva so I can
>>>      upgrade...
>>>      --
>>>      William
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