Like I said, nothing wrong with a good, hard debate, the problem is when you have idiots devoid of any logic, reason or rationality – another example of this is the Intel thread with idiots claiming that ‘Intel is dying!” the same idiots who think that somehow Linux is going to challenge the Microsoft jugganaunt and it’ll go bankrupt in 5 years.ĭashboard is not a rip-off of Konfabulator. Just look at the shit storm that errupts when I dare say that, shock horror, that I need Creative Suite (All Applications) and Macromedia Studio, and Linux doesn’t have that available – there is a jihad launched against me by zealots claiming that its me with the problem, not the lack of commercial applications on Linux. Windows comments immature conclusions made by people because ‘if I can do it, everyone can’ and completely devoid of any reality when taking to account that everyones needs are different.

There is nothing wrong with a strong argument being done by both sides, but on too many occasions it ends up falling down to immature ‘I’m better than you’ and ‘you suck!’ – just look at the Mac vs.

flamewar) oriented format that Slashdot sports is so attractive and addictive. So you are saying that it is a good thing there are no flame-wars? Discussion is the exact reason I enjoy browsing (and occasionally submitting) comments, which is the same reason the discussion (i.e. The features in MacOS X aren’t too bad, and as for the whinefeast regarding the dock, I see nothing wrong – what goes wrong is when people go into the dock preferences and start activing every damn thing in there, the magnified effect, making the dock transparent to the max etc.Īlot of the effects, which hog processors, are normally disabled – KDE actually ASKS you whether you want the effects to be lite, medium or heavy, Windows XP adjusts according to your system effects and Mac OS X disables effects not supported by the graphics card if people do whine about the over use of affects and the adverse affect on their computers performance, given how the operating systems operate, they only have themselves to blame for setting up their system in that way. Well, that is what I think Bytecoder was trying to get at in the way of eye candy – its about weighing up the benefits of adding the eye candy, whether the end user actually needs that particular feature and whether the downsides are outweighed by the benefits. As long as the use of it doesn’t hinder workflow such as being a memory hog or visually intrusive.

As for Bytecoder’s comment on eye candy there’s nothing wrong with improving the look of a desktop no matter if you use KDE, Gnome or something else.

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