Deja Vu all over again!

[Liam Proven]

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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