Interesting article about "What Linux is doing wrong on the desktop"

Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Tue May 9 14:27:38 BST 2006


On Tuesday 09 May 2006 03:45, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Mon, 08 May 2006 12:49:08 -0700
>
> Scott <listboi at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
> > On 05/08/2006 10:22 AM, * Cybe R. Wizard spake thusly:
> > > On Sun, 07 May 2006 18:26:12 -0700
> > > Scott <listboi at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Granted, it's been 4+ years ago but I used to run (an older
> > > version of) xfce on my Pentium 166.  It ran fairly well.  KDE
> > > would run, too, but a little bit slowly.  IceWM fairly flew.
> > > (which is why I'm still a fan of IceWM)
> >
> > I've never gotten into IceWM. I just don't care for the GUI or
> > the available themes.
>
> And ain't that the beauty of Open Source and Linux?  We all get
> what we want.

hehe. The other problem with Linux and Open Source is that it caters 
for idiots like me - I think nothing of running KDE, Gnome, e17 and 
matchbox in separate sessions and jump from one to another throughout 
the day as my mood changes :-)

-- 
If only me, you and dead people understand hex, 
how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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