also writing from kmail :D Thursday 09 February 2006 14:30, Eren Metin Elci wrote: | I have been using Arch Linux for 3 Month now, after I came from | gentoo. Now Iam thinking about installing KDE.
if you can afford the harddrive space, there should be no reason against not doing so and trying yourself. you can always remove it using pacman -R $pkgname if you don't like it ;-) | For that reason I | want to check if there are any problems or disadvantages by using | KDE in ArchLinux, because it is against the goal "KISS". it depends on the interpretation of KISS... i myself see it as the optimal way of doing somethign. use the right tools... if the tools are complicated but are the only available and you do not have the time/motivation/possibilities to create new tools, you better lerarn to use the available ones, eh? that's my motto... kde is huge... kdeinit takes long to start on older computers but once in RAM it works fine also on old computers. arch kde pkgs are set to be original with only minor modifications. therefore you are not confronted with lots of distro-specific mess in kde. kde is complex ... but that does not need to mean something bad. look at nature: imagine that every cell of a human has around 30'000 genes and about 10'000 up to 240'000 gene products. compared to this, if you want to make it simple a bacterium has about 4'000 genes and probably not much more than 4'000 gene products. however, i like being human and not bacterium. there are things that are much better if they are complex... but it always depends on the observation point. maybe bacteria laugh at us being so complex them being proud of being "simple". what is the point i'm trying to make.... i don't know... maybe the message is that ways of thinking do not essentially need to be theological. KISS is not a religion (however i believe in kissing (the biological interaction between two interfaces)) and some things are simpler if they stay complex. :-) - D -- A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. (Harvey Mackay)
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