On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 02:14:26PM -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: > Power users have always had a lot of flexibility and configurability.
Not anymore. :) > Anti > power user attitude is sometimes just pro novice user attitude > misinterpreted by upset power users. You can still install any number of > window managers or desktop environments that cater to power users, though. > And if power users made less noise about how lame and useless new stuff > was, the people who worked on it might be more willing to listen to them > with regard to their needs. Try reporting a GNOME bug and see if you still feel the same way. :) > In the end, people work on stuff or fund work that they're interested in. > Hating on the stuff people are interested in tends to be > counterproductive. In the free/open source software world, you can either > take what you're given with a smile, or you can work to make it more like > what you want/need, but even if you don't really like it you're still > getting way more than you paid for. These days I'm using XFCE with a smile, and I'm hating GNOME on the side. It's the best of both worlds. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
