On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 18:09 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 20 June 2008 21:09:57 Craig White wrote:
> >> My experience is that each Linux
> >> distribution has its own strengths and weaknesses and that all Linux
> >> users benefit from having options.
> >
> > Precisely. I use CentOS where I need total stability, Mandriva where I want
> > ease for technophobics and Fedora on the rest. Where else do you get choice
> > like this?
>
>
> Anne, and all KDE users. Do any of you really, and I mean really, believe that
> Fedora is responsible for the KDE 'problems'? That the KDE problems are not
> KDE's problems? That Fedora released in their ISO's a KDE that was made
> intentionally to 'break' KDE in Fedora?
>
> I know that you don't Anne ;-) This is mostly addressed at the other users
> posting in these several threads.
>
> Ok. How many of those of you that are disappointed or upset with KDE 4.x did
> any research *before* you installed/upgraded? How many of you downloaded a KDE
> Live-CD and actually tried it *before* you installed/upgraded?
>
> If you did not look or try it first you have very little to really complain
> about here. Would you buy a car, a house, rent an apartment, buy a suit, buy a
> pair of shoes without first looking at them or trying them out/on? Try before
> you buy.
Please don't get into this concept of blaming users because the
packages
made the decision to go to KDE-4
I think users need to be responsible for their decisions.
and we all have to deal with it. It's
not a big thing but it's enough to cause me to delay rolling out
Fedora-9
Seems like a good reason. You Furthermore, you took the time to see
what's up before rolling out.
to a network of KDE users for now because of their expectations
and level of skills has them putting files on the Desktop which is
presently dead space on KDE.
Soon to be fixed last I read. Seems for the better. You could have a
smb share on your desktop now. You may like this.
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