Vote for this as a post of the month! :))) (I am not writing in KMail :))
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 01:50 +0100, Damir Perisa wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch -- Molq?! Аз имам писменост... http://6lyokavitza.org/
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