On 25/11/14 23:35, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: > On 25 November 2014 at 23:42, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> The point was that it could be changed. […] >> >> […] It's about as on-topic and relevant as WinXP. > No, the point was that sometimes even a small annoyance is plenty > enough to drive people away. Let ma add a "me too" I was quite happy on ubuntu with gnome2 and compiz on the desktop then unity came along with the sidebar that you couldn't move/hide and a semi broken compiz so i moved to bodhi and jeff had really done well to create it but importantly i had my desktop cube back then bodhi 2 with the new version of enlightenment and i lost my compiz cube i could live with the loss of the 3d cube because enlightenment is awesome but then i tried update my system and sadly jeff had slipped with the update of the distro, and because it is esentially ubuntu i thought no bother, here we go. it _sort of_ worked so i tried gnome3 on a live disk and omg even less configurable when that came out without about 100 extra utils that some work for some version and others for another.... yeah i've no time for that so i thought look, i have gentoo on all servers why the big headache with gentoo on the desktop? i already knew loads about X and session management etc but all of this was useless to me, all i needed was gentoo and an enlightenment overlay and i was 90% there
in short: the power of linux is that mostly data and programs are very separated and it is very easy to jump ship when you lose features. also long term release jumps do not upgrade well. I can tell you more stories of having to "reinstall over the top" every five years and then apt-get install $fromsavedfile > The point was that when you feel that the distro you're using takes a > direction that doesn't fit you, you look for alternatives. > And that's perfectly on-topic. > > What's off-topic is to figure out if the damn buttons could actually > be moved or not. > > -- Emanuele Rusconi >
