26 Feb
2022
26 Feb
'22
7:58 p.m.
On Saturday 26 February 2022 11:34:07 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Saturday 26 February 2022 19.31:12 William Morder
via tde-users wrote:
No problem, no troll intended, no troll perceived.
Well, let's suppose that I *don't* use icecat or palemoon or seamonkey or
vivaldi-snapshot, since they are rather non-mainstream, third-party
repositories, etc. (As I said, they are all stand-alone items, nothing
added.) For sake of argument, that sounds reasonable.
Still, however, firefox doesn't work, and that's basically, comes already
installed with most systems; not only Devuan, but all Debian-based, and
probably most other Linux distros.
It's not that I wouldn't like to learn Gentoo and other distros, but I am
getting old, and want to use my computer to finish some work that has taken
literally decades to bring to completion; and I am almost there. I don't have
decades of life left. I want to use my computer for things besides learning
more about computers.
If there is some way for me to resolve this, and to get a working computer
with internet access - and more importantly, some kind of working office
software that I can actually use - then I am willing to try. But I think it's
unreasonable that I must relearn everything every few years.
I need to make the most of the years that I have left, not waste my time
fighting against the machines.
Bill
. I used to say of Gnome, well, at least it's
not as bad as
KDE4/5, etc., but now I begin to think maybe it's much worse than the
rest.
I don't remember what you use for a distribution but I have the feeling
that most desktops (and *many* applications) simply rely on gnomish
material.
Maybe building something like Gentoo from scratch could give a base system
totaly Gnome-free - I don't know.
So the question is - is there a really good reason to try to avoid them
competely (no troll, just a question). As far as I am concerned I am happy
if they don't mess with my system in a way I feel.
Thierry