Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 13:33 +0200, Clayton wrote:
> > > No, of course not.  Just apps that can end up hogging the system's
> > > resources like Beagle.
> > Only it doesn't.  Aside from that *fact* I'd agree with you.  Run beagle
> > and watch it with system-monitor,  when it starts to hog resources let
> > us know.
> I think the key here is... it doesn't hog resources *now*.  When the
> majority of people formed a negative opinion about Beagle, it
> definitely did hog resources.  This has colored their (and my) opinion
> of Beagle.  Now that Beagle actually works as it should, a lot of
> people are not willing to try it again... first impressions stick and
> stick hard.

So true [something as a sys-admin/deployment guy I see all the time].  

I had a conversation just the other day with a guy who was complaining
about the terrible addressbook/calendar in Thunderbird.  I think he is
spot-on with that complaint.  I asked why he didn't use Evolution
instead - which has a first rate addressbook and calendar.  

His answer: "I did and it crashed all the time".  
Question: "When was that?"
Answer: "I don't know, probably five or six years ago. I think it was
version 1.4 or something like that."

Ah.   So if he had said "Evolution crashes all the time!" his statement
would be fallacious at best;  knowledge has an expiration date.  Of
course I'm guilty of forgetting that myself sometimes.

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