On 12/14/05, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah. besides (reading all the related posts) it would be idiotic to cater > to linus' preferences. he's not 99.9% of the users.
it's not really catering to somebody's preferences, yes you have a choice. it's just nice and healthy to see someone speaking out his mind and i like him for it. he's a name in the community and he's not afraid to get lambasted for his thoughts. look at it this way -- it's just another guy blathering his gripes. i see no harm there. > > believe it or not, i used to have that "configure the heck out of > everything" mentality. and yes, i was initially dismayed at the lack of > configurability of metacity compared to fvwm2, windowmaker, etc. > > but guess what.. now i can live with it on a daily basis. havoc pennington > is right, if you get the defaults as close to "perfect" as you can, the > configurability can go to hell and most people will still love you. :) perfect to one is jumbled to another. you have to accept the fact that people are different and like different things. to be confined to something that "someone thinks is close to perfect" is the same way as having your decisions made for you. i'm the one who's going to use gnome so why not let me configure it to my liking? (not that i really use gnome, only as an example :) > i guess it all goes down to a choice: 5 years ago i worked with computers > because i loved to do so. i loved coding. i loved hacking. today, i work > with computers because it enables me to live the rest of my life, away from > the keyboard. i'm still grateful that my work is something i like doing, but > it's a means to an end, and no longer an end in itself. your point? > hence, three cheers for havoc pennington and nat friedman! three boos for > linus! -- /nh _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
