[TAG] One for Ben

[Ben Okopnik]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 05:17:50PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:06:02 -0400
> "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> 
> > I hate user-obsequious computers.
> 
> Don't use KDE, then.

It's certainly one of the major reasons that I don't. My current machine
has plenty of disk, memory, and CPU for KDE to gratuitously throw in the
trash (oops - was that my 'out-loud' voice? Darn), but I refuse to put
up with the Micr0s0ft-style blinkenlights philosophy of the interface
("Fear not, small human creature; KDE has decided on everything you'll
want and need, and will provide it for you.") I dislike the standard
RedHat install for the same reasons (it's a minor dislike, but that's
the reason for it.)

IceWM is small, fast, and lacks nothing in features that I want from a
WM. From Thomas' previous rantings :), I gather that FVWM is much the
same sort of thing. It's like having a spoon that you bought for a
quarter; no matter *how* you improve the thing, it's _still_ going to be
a spoon, and the functionality of it will never be worth much more than
that price. Yeah, you could theoretically make it out of gold and attach
it to a gadget that will feed the baby, wipe up the spills, and go to
the store to buy the products to replace the ones it used up... but it's
neither a spoon any longer, nor is it nearly as useful as a spoon is if
you move away from the home/baby/store metaphor.


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