Deja Vu all over again!

[Donald Talbert]

On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 21:08 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 27 June 2011 21:51, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
> > I came to Linux when KDE 3.x was pretty mature. When KDE 4. was first
> > released there was a huge uproar. It was different. Much ash clothe and
> > gnashing of teeth. Much, "I'm going to (insert version name here)." [
> > OK, I'll admit that when it was first released it was a mess, but I
> > think it has matured a lot already ]
> >
> > Now Ubuntu is making sweeping changes. More ash clothe and gnashing of
> > teeth. More, "I'm going to (insert version name here)."
> >
> > Does it strike anyone besides myself as amusing just how resistant to
> > change the (K)Ubuntu/Linux community is?
> 
> Well said!
> 
> I think it's hilarious how all these progressive technophile
> let's-get-everyone-to-change-their-OS geeks are crying like little
> children who've dropped their icrecreams over a simple and relatively
> minor change in desktop layout.
> 
> > I think the real winners are those that embrace the change and move on
> > with it. At least for the most part it has worked out that way in my
> > case. I'm quite happy with KDE 4.x, and have been for some time.
> >
> > Someone once said. "The only constant is change." [ or something to that
> > effect ]
> >
> > Usually towards entropy.
> 
> Ah, well, if you're a KDE user then you've undergone a rather more
> modest change & you're safe from all the Unity fallout. :¬)
> 
> Personally, I've used fvwm, fvwm95, KDE 1, 2, 3 & 4, GNOME 1 & 2, wm2,
> Ouroboros, twm, flwm, Xfce, LXDE, OpenBox, Fluxbox, WindowMaker,
> Blackbox and probably others I've forgotten on Linux over the years...
> 
> And Windows 2, 3, 95, 95B, 98, 98SE, ME, NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4, 2000,
> XP, Vista, 7, OS/2 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 3.0, 4.5, BeOS, MacOS 6,
> 7, 8, 9, X 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, SunOS,
> Solaris, DECwindows on VAX/VMS, AmigaOS 1 & 2, ST-GEM and PC-GEM and
> FreeGEM, QNX, RISC OS, Taos, EPOC, Symbian/UIQ, Symbian/Series 80,
> Symbian/Series 60, Android and iOS.
> 
> Getting bored with listing 'em now.
> 
> Anyone who gets bothered by a new GUI is a wuss and a weenie. :¬)
> 
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Agreed, well said. haha :)

Regards,
-Don

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Donald Talbert <donaldtalbert at gmail.com>