Linus Torvalds: "Use KDE"

tylux — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:57:03 +0800

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Without tip-toeing around the matter, Linus Torvalds made his preference in the GNOME vs. KDE matter quite clear on the GNOME-usability list: "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE." Also, "Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'."

Taken from OSnews.

IMHO... a destructive comment from the man himself surely gonna cause uproar in Linux community especially Gnome developer and users. What do you guys think?

Newbie's Linux eye candy guide.

tylux — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:31:40 +0800

Ok... whoever thinks windoze looks better than linux... read on.

Linux was once known as an ugly desktop when it first went public, mainly used by geeks who loathed GUI and love CLI. Nowadays linux has attract more users and long gone were the days where linux was only used by geeks. GUI has replaced CLI and XWindows in major distros and since then it has has been used widely everywhere by non-geeks who has limited or no CLI knowledge at all. I'm not gonna write a long history of linux and how it goes about and yada yada yada.

So, straight to the point... now... for the goodies.

Links for your eye candy linux desktop themes and skins.

# Kde..
# Gnome.
# XFCE.
# Other linux desktop.

Links for your window managers themes.

# Afterstep.
# Blackbox.
# CTWM.
# Enlightenment.
# Fluxbox.
# FVWM.
# IceWM.
# Kahakai.
# MetaCity.
# Openbox.
# Oroborus.
# Sawfish.
# Waimea.
# Window Maker.
# Other window managers.

Other cool links:

# kde-apps.org
# kde-apps.de
# kde-files.org

Not forgetting themes for perverts... LOL... click here to satisfy your pervertic "otak biru". Kids... stay away

Feel free to add more links if i miss some. Enjoy and have fun... now you can show off your desktop to your friends who's still using pirated version of StyleXp or Windowsblind suite.

cheers.

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