[Gllug] GNOME Disk Activity

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 12 Dec 2002, Sudhir Anand wrote:

BTW, I thought you were going to quit the list?

>Since you want to indulge in word play,

The mysterious transmutation of a "fact" into an opinion is the word
play here, I think.

>that on my Pc and  my experience, KDE has performed satisfactorily and been
>a transparent tool in hepling me achieve my objectives.  On Gnome, however,
>I was struggling with the environment/windows manager or whatever you want
>to call it.

I want to call a desktop environment a desktop environment and a
window manager a window manager. If you find out what they are,
perhaps you can do the same.

>installed Linux on close to ten Pc's at home, both desktops and laptops.  I
>know this is not a huge number

No, it's not. So perhaps you may come closer to understanding why
people like me who have done literally hundreds of installs (not all
on x86 machines, either, and even within the x86 machines on widely
disparate hardware with equally different objectives) find anecdotes
stated as facts ridiculous.

>I attended the User Group meeting on December 7.  The presentation on Gnome
>was in my opinion very poor and did nothing to inspire confidence in using
>it as my enviroment / windows front end / [take your pick].

Obviously a poor presentation mystically affects the quality of the
software it is made about.

>My other gripe is on what I consider to be personal insults, for which there
>is no need and to which I am sensitive.

That's OK, because there haven't been any comments about you yourself,
merely about your facts^H^H^H^H^H opinions.

>Being an immigrant I have got used
>to racial and other insults hurled at me on the streets.  I would like to
>make clear that I am NOT accusing anyone here of using racial abuse.

Sure. So why bring it up in an environment where no-one would
otherwise have any idea what you look like?

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