Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

[Tobia Tesan]

Il 13/02/2012 10:47, Life Monad ha scritto:
> Debian,Gentoo,Slackware,Ubuntu
>
>     I use all four, for different purpouses, of course. 
>
> You use all four??
> GNOME,Unity,KDE,Xfce....XXXX

No. I'm not touching KDE with a 4-foot pole (sorry, KDE folks, you are 
doing a great job, but I'm just not a KDE guy :).
I also find GNOME2 "neither fish nor flesh" these days.

I run Oneiric+Unity on my "everyday" laptop (making it, among other 
advantages, girlfriend-compliant :) and either Slackware+FVWM or 
Debian+WindowMaker on my decrepit laptop and/or on my EEEPC, when I need 
a distractions-free envinronment to run an Emacs session and maybe pine 
on an otherwise sluggish machine.
Debian is also my server OS of choice, Gentoo is for playing around :)

Makes perfect sense to me.

> oh....different tools for different purposes

Do you seriously think that I should attempt to run Unity on a S3 Virge 
and/or I should slap FVWM on my girlfriend's uber-specced MBP and teach 
her how to edit .fvwmrc? :)

> Maybe,because linux desktop developers only have been  listening to 
> those users who already are using linux and like it.
> Maybe...

Oh, come one, Unity is a definite step in the opposite direction.
Everybody knows that real developers don't even use a DE, they do 
everything within an emacs session :P
(See also: http://xkcd.com/378/)

But enough about me - seriously, if you don't like Ubuntu, why not just 
use Debian?
It basically IS Ubuntu minus the bits you don't like.

-- 
Tobia Tesan
<tobia.tesan at gmail.com>
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