[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

[Tim]

On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 02:51 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> Of course, I agree, hardware&money limitations are always a pain. But
> even Gnome 2 and KDE3.5 were not considered to be lightweight
> environments. It would be better to switch to XFCE or LXDE or
> something similar on those machines. Or even use some other distro
> like DSL or something...

Though, apparently not as heavy as the newer versions...

I turned off Compiz, because it was a waste of my time.  I didn't need
it, it's slow animations were a delay.  Not to mention being a CPU pig.

I tried a few lighter weight desktops, but they lacked features that I
wanted.  Such as sensible auto-dis/mounting of removable media.  And
various applications that I wanted to use were Gnome, so avoiding the
Gnome desktop didn't help, the baggage was still needed.

> It also depends on what you mean by a "desktop behind ordinary
> software".

The user interface underneath my word processor, ordinary email and web
browsing...

> I mean, one can still make some nonzero use of, say, an ancient 286
> machine running MS-DOS, for example. And I still have (and moreover,
> occasionaly even *use* ) the old Amiga 1200 on my desk, right next to
> the (fairly modern) PC and a laptop. Call me sentimental, but I just
> cannot get myself to trash that machine, regardless of its age... ;-)

I've still got a few of them around.  I work in video production, and
they're brilliant for doing live titling.  The alternatives being buying
expensive custom video equipment, inadequate domestic gear clones of
broadcast equipment, or wasting lots of time post producing video,
instead of live mixing.

Still got a few A500s and A2000s that don't deserve being dumped,
either.

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