12 Apr
2025
12 Apr
'25
2:51 a.m.
On 4/11/25 4:48 PM, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
I am pretty old myself, dude, 67 years as of this past
February. There are a
few others who are older, but I think I'm probably counted among the elders.
And let's not forget Gene, who is still chugging away in his 90s.
I got you beat. I guess that places me in the elders group. :)
Maybe put out a call especially to Slackware users,
here on the TDE mailing
list, but also search the Slackware forums (I assume that there are such) to
find some other TDE users, or at least some people who might be willing to
help.
I seem to recall that there were some Slackware users here on the Trinity
list, and that there used to be some (probably old) Slackware ISOs with TDE.
Maybe they are archived somewhere?
Well, sadly many Slackware users tend to be like many Arch users --
doggone smart and knowledgeable but often elitist. Argue about any and
all minutia for months on end. The old newsgroup from years ago was not
a friendly place for new Slackers. The official forum is similar. Maybe
I'm the oddball that I don't embrace that kind of attitude, but I gave
up on the forum. Even one of the lead developers stopped participating
in the forum because of the general environment.
There was some discussion in the forum about TDE and possible
development, but the thread fell silent.
I am aware of some Slackware users here in the lists. Hopefully over
time I can get them to come out of the shadows and we can make some TDE
progress together.
I think my problem of late is pushing too hard. Exhausted. For weeks I
have been hammering away hard at TDE trying to break from KDE (which
overall is a fine DE with its own paper cut issues). I think I burned
out and became my own enemy. Maybe I should stay away from problem
solving for a few days. :)