Re: Is This a KDE/Gnome Group?

On 2008-02-05, Magnate <contact.me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Tom Newton" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

I was wondering if there are people here teaching newbies to run
Linux from what I call ODE (the Other Desktop Environment),
which is to say, using X and a window manager and a file
browser/manager from 'xterms'.

Yeah. I'm gradually converting my entire extended family to Linux from
the ODE.

That does't make any sense.


Or newbies who would prefer to run Linux without relying on one of
those limited, resource-hogging, artificial, Windows-clone
user-interfaces.

There are a lot of things you can't do without a GUI, and a lot of
apps you can't run. WYSIWYG editing is here to stay,

You are certainly confused. I use a GUI, a Graphical User Interface.
But I don't run KDE or Gnome or anything like that.

And I can run any independent X app that's available, including many
that are packaged with KDE, like kstars.

And including any number of WYSIWYG editors. (I don't, because any
text editor that requires the use of a mouse is garbage.)

I use firefox all the time. And an excellent window manager
(ratpoison). And xpdf.

I also run a lot of console apps in 'xterm' because they are generally
superior to the X apps that supposedly do the same job.


Tom

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