[15.04 64Bit]-Stop Complaining About It...

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 13 May 2015 20:24:14 -0600, Michael Hirsch wrote:
>On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Alan Dacey (grokit) wrote:
>> On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 4:11:18 PM Jesse Palser wrote:
>>> If you are unhappy with Kubuntu then go back to Windows.
>Hah.  Good one!  If you are unhappy with the mailing list go to a
>windows mailing list.

Nice reply :).

>1) All my settings are lost.  I have to redo my panels, windows,
>shortcuts, etc.  Most of the features are still there, but no attempt
>was made to translate them from KDE 4 to KDE 5.  Bad form!

Actually it is not a bad form. Updates within a major release of
software aren't allowed to break something and they have to be backwards
compatible. The nature of updating to another major release is that
things could break. The only exception is the kernel, no upgrades of a
vanilla kernel should break something. However, Xfce4 for example
breaks things within a major release. Linus Torvalds banned a coder
from the systemd/udev crowed from the kernel development, because he
completely doesn't care about it.

If possible I try to use software based on GTK2 instead of GTK3 or Qt
based software. If I use Qt based software, then if possible <= Qt4.
Whatever WM/DE I want to use, I want to be able to at least halfway
choose font sizes. There are qtconfig-qt3 and qtconfig-qt4, but there's
no qtconfig-qt5. This is ivory-towered, because Linux userspace does
offer choices, we users should be able to configer userspace using GTK‮
and Qt software to our needs, whatever WM/DE we're using.

Ubuntu/Kubuntu offers LTS. Rolling releases such as Arch offer the user
to compile software against outdated libs.

Users who want to keep their work flow as long as possible and who don't
want to buy new hard ware again and again should care about using
software that does allow this. I prefer using WMs without a DE, to get
rid of the DE issues. Nowadays the most secure way to go seems to use
GTK2 based WMs in addition with a selection of software from DEs.

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