On 09/07/2015 06:06 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
So you're getting the idea that you are SUPPOSED to do heavy customization of Linux to get it to how you want.
Supposed by whom? And for what reasons? Who are they working for?
The "one size fits all" "the distributed settings are ideal for everyone" attitude of Microsoft and their paternalistic "we know what's good for you" attitude simply doesn't apply here.
You're saying you're not telling me what's good for me right now? You keep telling me that what's good for me is to invest momentous amounts of time and energy in getting the configuration I want. You're effectively saying that that's good for me. Stop being so 'paternalistic' then ;-). You're making the same mistake that Microsoft ever made. Microsoft says "It has to be left." You say "It has to be right." But the user is left dangling.
Linux is not a "Nanny State".
No you people apparently make it a disaster state on purpose, for the sole purpose of then having the experience of making your way out of disaster mode. There was a game on the Megadrive/Genesis that was called Fatal Rewind. You are thrown in a pit in some kind of survivor suit/robot/mechanical motion device and within a few seconds the pit starts filling up with poisonous fluid. Your goal is to make it out of the pit alive. You're saying that linux is supposed to be one of these pits and once you make it out alive you can claim honour or at least some kind of superiority to those who haven't made it out. There is a similar reference in the fantasy series by Weis & Hickman, Death Gate.
In Systemssetting you can turn on or off a lot of 'eye-candy' Some of the eye candy such as style -> fine tuning can have great impact.
Most of these settings pertain to specific moments, such as what happens on log-in, or when you press ctrl-alt-del, that sorta stuff. Most of it is irrelevant for this discussion at this point.
See also Desktop Effect -> Advanced to tune your graphics subsystem for the particular graphics card and library that is most effective in your specific context.
I know, the openGL stuff.
Turn off everything in Desktop Effects -> all effects except the things that a) you understand b) absolutely need
I don't think that's necessary. If it was necessary, they shouldn't include it by default.
That might be
+ ONE and only one item from "Window management"
+ Support for screenshots so that we might be able to help you in some circumstances
Any other of this eye candy is going to take computational power.
I seriously don't see how you can call any of that "The Unix culture" or whatever. Either they produce extremely bad defaults, or include way too much garbage, and most of it is (currently) related to the GUI that really has no bearing on pre-pre-pre-pre days. Packaging is the task of the developer/creator/maintainer/whatever. SUSE packages RPMs, rightly so, because otherwise it would become unworkable for all users. Your arguments that all users "should" or are "supposed" to do all of the end-user fine-tuning could equally be extended to "the user is supposed to make his package selection by himself" to "the user is supposed to package all programs himself" or whatever. You can see how ludicrous that would be. That means it is a flawed notion. Of course you centralize these efforts so everyone can benefit from it. That doesn't mean configuration should be impossible. In the Windows land much configuration is impossible. You cannot change anything about the defaults. The defaults used to be alright for quite some time, but they are not any longer. You are confusing "there are no configuration options" with "the defaults have to work for everyone until the end of time." Just because Windows generally doesn't offer any customization of many things, doesn't mean you have to go the other extreme: offer any and all configuration options but make the defaults so bad that everyone HAS to configure. Windows: no one has to configure anything Linux: everyone has to configure everything. Don't you think there would be a middle ground in this? Stop being so extreme about everything. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org