[dundee] Those pesky KDE devs...just a moan

[Sean McRobbie]

It is general things like this that have caused my friend to run his desktop with 32GB RAM so he can forget about it for a long time.

I want to do the same, however 32GB on the desktop does not come cheap so I can't justify it.

Of course, 32GB per desktop in an office would just be silly unless you used the spare resources for something useful e.g. VMs for secure browsing.

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Ladyman" <it at file-away.co.uk>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 10 December, 2009 9:19:00 PM
Subject: Re: [dundee] Those pesky KDE devs...just a moan

You forget my age, young Padawan - in the dim and distant we didn't have no 
steenkin' mice and fitting a hard disc involved a hacksaw, three strong mean 
and a team of oxen. "GUI" was a sound reserved for syrup, or, if pronounced as 
initials, the sound of an startled North American.

I think I shall go no further with KDE4 - requiring a per-user full-blown 
mysql installation that is used merely for caching has a WTF-rating that goes 
off the scale. It isn't to do with the use of resources, but also with the 
security implications and the " we are doing this and you will not be able to 
switch it off " attitude in the face of any criticism, which now appears to be 
the modus operandi of the KDE team. I hear that they are developing a portable 
computer system without batteries (it does, however, require a small nuclear 
power-station) and are intending that vi be replaced with OpenOffice, your 
keyboard to be 7 feet long and that the mouse will require a small donkey-
engine to power its hydraulics.

I shall have a look at CrunchBang, if only to keep Arron quiet.


I remember when this were all fields...

Disgruntled, of Newtyle.

> 
> *ahem*  allow me.  ;D
> 
> i'm an old kde(3.*) die-hard... but i've found great joy in trying out
>  other window managers, running them without the rest of the clutter that
>  accompanies a hefty full desktop environment, of which i probably only
>  ever really use <1% of.  and then of course, only installing/launching
>  that which i need, as i need it.    if resources are tight, this is the
>  way to go. kde isnt the same thing it was 5 years ago.
> 
> yep, Crunchbang is a great welcoming entrance to the world of lightweight n
> minimal, showing you that it neednt be an unpleasant experience.    rather
> than an uphill struggle like i've found with previous times trying out
> openbox (or other "wms"), it felt like... it felt as easy as sledging down
>  a hillside.  :D
> 
> 
> and just to live up to that quote from Arron that i started with,
> 
> have you considered beginning to learn the tools of the minimalism elite?
> I, born to the gui, am not quite there yet, by a long way, but the
> possibility does intrigue me.
> a link to exemplify:
> http://kmandla.wordpress.com/software/
> 
> or you could just live in emacs.  lol.


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