[geeks] The illusion of Windows 7

[Mark Benson]

On 1 Nov 2009, at 00:51, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> I've wondered more than once whether there are MS deep-cover moles in
> the GNOME project.

I just think it (and KDE even more so) are projects run by a bunch of  
clueless muppets who think they know better than highly trained GUI  
architects how to make a GUI, and implement every suggestion they like  
one sight. There just doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to what  
they change or why they change is and the result is a cockamamy  
cluster of f****s of a UI system that's not only awkward to use at  
times but also ungodly slow (in the case of KDE even more so) on less  
than modest hardware. Some of  the UI inconstancy i've seen also makes  
Apple's travesties in the field look minor.

> (Actually, that particular problem is less an Ubuntu one, than a
> networkmanager one.  I detest and despise networkmanager, and I want  
> to
> apply a clue-by-four to whatever drooling retard it was that thought  
> it
> was a good idea to create a network management tool for Linux that can
> ONLY start up networking from a GUI.  I mean, even *Windows* isn't  
> THAT
> stupid.)

On the subject of Ubuntu and NetworkManager only working via a GUI,  
how in gods name does Ubuntu Server start the networking stack, given  
it installs by default with no GUI?


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