Ubuntu KDE

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:09 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> I may well be stupid, but I still don't understand why KDE lovers
> subscribed and post to the Ubuntu list, when there are obviously so many
> other KDE-centric ditros out there. Why would one want to turn a poor
> dog into a cat, when there are so many cats in the streets to chose from
> in the first place ? Why would you want to turn a british sports car
> like say a Lotus Esprit into an Italian one like Ferr**  when they have
> obviously such incompatible/different souls ? 
> Why don't you just use Mandrake ? I used it before switching to Ubuntu.
> It works great and they love KDE and ruin poor Gnome to the point that I
> gave up putting it straight.
> It is so strange, really so strange. I could see that Mandrake was
> clearly pampering KDE and didn't give a shit of Gnome, so when I
> discovered Ubuntu, I thanked God and switched to it, simple. If I
> followed your way of thinking, I would have tried to force Mandrake to
> look after Gnome, when cleary they don't give a shit. 
> Could you please give me good reasons to waste your time forcing a Gnome
> based distro to use KDE, instead of using a KDE loving distros in the
> first place ?
> 
> I really, really, really, really can't see any reason, and haven't seen
> any in any of the previous posts. Maybe I missed an important one.

I would just like to remind you at this point of the Ubuntu Code of
Conduct, which states that you should remain polite and respectful at
all times on the list.  This post was neither, and very inflammatory.