On Thu, July 27, 2006 7:24 pm, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:42:17PM +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: >> On Thursday 27 July 2006 2:41 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> > Is that why Ubuntu shoves gnome down my throat? >> My thoughts exactly. > > Actually, taking this further off-topic, how do you construe the choice > of a default as shoving something down your throat? > > There is a particular purpose in simplifying the installer to the state > where it asks the minimum number of questions, which means that you must > have defaults. It's default what MTA, browser, collection of solitaire > games and kernel is installed. > > Are they shoving a particular kernel version down your throat too? > > Are you prevented from changing things after the install? Are you > prevented from installing Kubuntu? Are you prevented from compiling > random progs from source? > > Why aren't you using Ruby on Rails?^H^H^H^H^H^A^K :-) > > It's fun to complain about things that you don't happen to like. Doesn't > make them true though. > > -jim, using Ubuntu with the Ion3 window manager.
I nominate this as post of the week, if not the decade. i am a regular user of kde and a regular user of gnome. I sometimes use xfce4. I regularly change my desktop until i get sick of it and change it to something different. They all work, and these days i can even say that they all work well. Thats what I call choice. I can choose to install what I want, and each time I log in i can choose which desktop I use. In the above you can mix and match "window manager" for "desktop" - I know they are not synonymous, but this thred isn't exactly bristling with precision >
