On Sunday 26 September 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Ah, sorry, I do not quite understand. Last time I used Windows (except > the occasional browser in an internet cafe), was middle of the > nineties. So, were Mandriva and all the others not made for me? Notice the phrase "keep being Linux" at my post. So, question: who should better influcence the fate of a Linux distro? Ones that prefer Windows or the ones that liked Linux on the first place?
> > I've been a Linux user not a Windows user for many years, and I always > thought Mandriva, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, whatever, was made for me! > I know to use vi and emacs, I know to use fluxbox and similar lean > systems. But I also like knotify and the "modern desktop trends". So I > am not a Linux user? I did comment on the /stability/ of knotify4 and the fact that it brings your system down, to a level worse than Windows. > As long as I know how to do it the "basic way" I do not feel "non > Linux" when I use KDE 4 or whatever you may regard as "windowish". I regard as Windowish the policy that "if the appearance is OK, then the software is fine", rather than the Unix/Linux mentality that software must be rock solid and able to "survive" in a pool of bugs. -- Say NO to spam and viruses. Stop using Microsoft Windows!
