On 29/08/11 00:15, James Knott wrote:
Insomniac wrote:
IMO, 7.3 and 9.3 were the best versions SuSE has ever put out. KDE screwed up going to KDE4 and all the moronic eye candy garbage and not-intuitive-anymore ways of getting to anything done and taking a*LOT* of control away from the user - it's not much different in look and feel from M$ anymore. Unfortunately it seems Linux in general is going the way of M$, when you come to linux forums or mailing lists and you hear the excuses M$ users used 10 years ago for it not running well on their systems - ie: not enough RAM, reboot to fix it, the 'oh you need the sooper-dooper-most-up-to-date-version of that to work' excuse, ad nausea.
I agree. I'm currently running 11.0 on my main system. I have 11.4 on a few systems, but only one, my notebook, is not a firewall or server where the desktop is less critical. I also think KDE 4 was in many ways a step backward. I'll have to update (I can't use the word "upgrade") to a later verison of openSUSE soon, but I'm lot looking forward to being stuck with KDE 4.
Like you, I find KDE 4 tends to get in the way, in the same manner that Windows 7 (which I use at work) gets in the way, compared to XP. Why do developers consider many of these "features" to be an improvement, when all they do is get in the way of users? Incidentally, a friend of mine recently bought a new computer that came with W7. She hates it and she's by no means a "power user". She just wants to get her work done and finds all the "improvements" in W7 to be an aggravation. It's a shame the Linux desktop developers seem to think they have to follow Microsoft's cue.
I don't want eye candy crap. I want a desktop that works well.
Then simply turn off the Desktop Effects - nobody is forced to use them. I am runninng 11.4 with KDE4.7 on an old clunker I built myself some 8 years ago. It has 1.5GB of RAM. I find no slowing down on performance between this and when I ran KDE3. Oh, and it's only a 32-bit system. BC -- "Facts are stupid things." Ronald Reagan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org