Re: gEDA-user: which linux?

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 5, 2005, at 2:28 PM, hoyuka hoya wrote:
> Otherwise Windows XP is much more suitable for workstation than 
> Unicies.

  *laughs hysterically*

  Personally, I have better things to do than deal with spyware & 
viruses every day, and "fdisk, format, reinstall, doo dah, doo dah!" 
every other week.  I'm too impatient for Windows.

>  I mean user friendly stable and fast Office and other type of GUI
> applications are rare on Unicies. E.g. Windows XP's GUI much faster and
> much less resource consuming than KDE and GNOME on the same hardware.

  That's why performance-sensitive people (like you and I) don't run 
the bloated piles of crap that are the KDE or GNOME desktop 
environments. :)

> (When I run WindowsXP on the top of VMWare on Linux, WinXP's GUI is 
> still
> much faster than KDE when it runs natively on Linux. Terrible!)

  This has absolutely nothing to do with "Unicies"...it has to do with 
incompetent KDE and GNOME developers.  Don't run KDE or GNOME and 
you'll witness a BLINDING speed difference between modern, fast UNIX 
and old Windows crap.  The KDE/GNOME crowd seem to be trying to 
out-bloat Windows, and that's pretty scary.

  Now, I have no problem with a few KDE or GNOME apps (the GNOME-izded 
pcb for example) but running the whole desktop environment is enough to 
drag even my brand-new Sun Ultra20 (Opteron) through the mud.  That's 
just plain silly.

            -Dave

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