While I agree with the desirability of using only freeware and open source,
Ihave found the Nvidia drivers to be rock solid. But my AMD powered Compaq
desktop refuses to do 16x9 format with thew Trisquel-supplied driver. So I
thought I'd just use what I knew would work flawlessly. But it didn't,
though only because I ran into the run-level problem. I run almost all open
source software and have since loading Linux 0.93 in January 1994. But if a
hardware manufacturer is decent enough to supply GOOD Linux support, I am
hardly going to turn up my nose at it. In fact it encourages me to buy from
them!
And yes, I think that both Gnome and KDE are absolutely appalling bloatware,
full of decorative stuff that is totally non-essential to the writing and
photo editing that are what I mostly I do. wasting countless zillions of CPU
cycles and ram and disk megabytes. Mostly, I dislike software with
mind-boggling unnecessary features, preferring lean programs that are not
loaded with arcane options in imitation of Windoze software. In countless
commercial software shops, the mantra is, "Let's generate some new revenue!
We'll add some more snake-oil features and tell the IQ-80 crowd they can't
live without 'em."
A bit crusty or curmudgeonly? Perhaps, but I wrote my college term papers on
a 12MHz 286 system with 1MB of RAM running QNX2.x, long before Linus got fed
up with Coherent and began writing his own. I thought, when it appeared, that
Wordstar was a gift from the gods! There is simply too much unnecessary
complication clogging the arteries of all -IX systems.
Sorry to go on so, and thank you all for your assistance.
