Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2740 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, 2008-12-04 at 16:20 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

> > Forcing users to buy new hardware is not the way for Linux.
>
> but they are not "forced", unless they wish the new features,
> security, pretty graphics/desktop.

In a way we are. Not all of us want all the new "pretty graphics/desktop". 
Perhaps we just want some new features, the security updates, and all the 
bugfixes. I remember some time ago when the desktop had a slider to let us 
choose how much complexity we wanted, against used resources (cpu mostly). 
That would be fine for kde4.


> My system was fine for processing photographs, which was one of the
> criteria when I built it.  Now I have a camera which outputs 12mp
> files and processing them is somewhat of a drag.  A price for the
> increased resolution and features of my digital camera  :^(.

It will just be slower, but it will do it.


> > This is not Microsoft.
>
> Definitely and I would never want it to be.  I *only* see m$ when I
> service someone else's boxen  :^).  (and I am loosing that battle).

When you need new hardware because your two year old computer is slow as a 
tortoise with vista... then I would think that they have put bloat on 
purpose in order to sell hardware. I'd hate to see the same in Linux, when 
one of the promotional points of Linux for years has been making old 
hardware usable.


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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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