Nick I 100% agree with you.
I also love the fact that OSS products also run on Windows so well now...
I had a customer last week who was very worried about us asking them not
to use MS products, that was until she saw the 10 or more OSS
applications I installed and realised just how easy it is to mix and match.
I would have also got her running on Linux but needed that to be dual
boot until I have her confidence. Problem was that the NTFS system on
her machine (which is identical to mine I thought) presented errors when
I tried to repat it. (hence my earlier comments about GParted)
I also haven't got the wireless working yet, which is a problem for me
because that's the whole reason she agreed to buy the new laptop, so she
didn't have to sit in a cold hall way.... but it's an issue I will fix
over the next couple of weeks I hope.
Jim keep up the great work on some common sense responses!
Cheers Don
Nick Rout wrote:
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
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