[Ubuntu-us-ok] Howdy

[Israel]

On 08/20/2014 10:03 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 08/20/2014 09:41 PM, Israel wrote:
>> On 08/20/2014 08:35 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>>> On 08/20/2014 06:58 PM, Israel wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I was poking around lp and found this list.
>>>> Is anyone active on it?
>>>>
>>>> I wonder, mainly, if there is a fairly active FLOSS community here....
>>>>
>>> I'm over here in the shadows. Pretty much an average home computer
>>> owner that just happens to prefer using Linux, Kubuntu, presently
>>> 14.04, to be specific. I haven't done any programing since basic on my
>>> TI99-4A and CoCo 2, both of which I still have by the way. I do some
>>> HTML and CSS for genealogy and history websites I manage. I don't do
>>> any CLI. If I wanted to use the CLI I would still be using DOS 6. I
>>> only know one CLI string and that is to install Synaptic on a clean
>>> install of Kubuntu because the KDE package handler suck big time.
>>>
>> Hi Billie,
>> I have really tried to like KDE, a lot, but have always had a hard
>> time.  That said, I think this new version that is coming looks pretty
>> amazing.  I think oxygen and the 'shiny' icons always made it harder for
>> me to enjoy it.
>>
>> I use the terminal a lot for packaging with bzr and pbuilder.  I also
>> use it if I need to do something repetitive, like convert 2000+ svg
>> images into png format.  I can make a quick bash script that uses
>> inkscape (in the no gui mode of course) and a while later... voila!
>>
>> Glad to know a Kubuntu user!  I am sure everything Qt will continue to
>> get more popular, and KDE is the original, anyhow!
>>
>
> Well, coming from a Windows background, about 14 years ago, KDE was
> just more comfortable. I used XFCE for a while on a different distro
> on an Asus EePC and it was fine. Gnome was/is kind of like a foreign
> language. <]:oD  I have virtually no experience with Apple
> products/OSanything.
>
Hi again!
Yeah, I totally understand,
My first experience with Linux was Gnome 1 on Red Hat.  It was mind
blowing, because it was so different.  Multiple desktops, applications I
had never heard of, everything was so foreign and new.  I think that is
why KDE was hard for me, it reminded me too much of my experiences with
Blue screens, and Vista.  I wanted something totally different.  That is
probably why I use Ubuntu (unity) Lubuntu and for the really old
computers JWM :)

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