Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Have I to install wifi now?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 11:21 AM Grant Edwards 
wrote:
>
> On 2020-05-30, Peter Humphrey  wrote:
>
> > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, [...]
>
> > Is this going to be policy in future? Bloat the machine up with bells
and
> > whistles that are unwanted, and even actively disliked. Already I've
been
> > obliged to install encryption and LVM, neither of which I want; where
is it
> > going to end?
>
> Running Openbox instead of Plasma?
>
> I had a hard enough time preventing XFCE from installing tons of stuff
> I didn't wan't.  Gnome and KDE desktops are so far beyond the pale it
> takes OTH radar to find them.
>
> --
> Grant

And yet a week ago this guy put out a small test of XFCE vs KDE resource
usage and KDE came out fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrvJOXypAbk

Just a different POV,
Mark

[gentoo-user] Re: Have I to install wifi now?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2020-05-30, Peter Humphrey  wrote:

> I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, [...]

> Is this going to be policy in future? Bloat the machine up with bells and 
> whistles that are unwanted, and even actively disliked. Already I've been 
> obliged to install encryption and LVM, neither of which I want; where is it 
> going to end?

Running Openbox instead of Plasma?

I had a hard enough time preventing XFCE from installing tons of stuff
I didn't wan't.  Gnome and KDE desktops are so far beyond the pale it
takes OTH radar to find them.

--
Grant