20 Nov
2019
20 Nov
'19
7:24 p.m.
On Wednesday 20 November 2019 20.02:57 ajh-valmer wrote:
TDE is not really for the nostalgic of KDE3,
but made for those who want a light desktop,
and nevertheless, with many rich options.
I totaly agree. However I think many on this list are "experienced" computer
users (I mean "old" :).
We come from a time where computer ressources were scarce (few hundred KB of
RAM, few Megabytes of harddisk - if any haddisk at all). What we wanted - and
still look for - was efficency and stability.
Modern geeks want screen effects, animations, videos instead of reading text
files, "wizards" instead of learning how to do things. Any program that has
not been "updated" for a few month is considered "unmaintained" on
Android.
So a Desktop environment that seems to have stayed the same for 10 years is
for "nostalgic" people.
I belong to those who are proud of knowing the value of things. I could run
a "modern" DE on my computers, but why? TDE gives me everything I need, and
Konqueror.
The question is rather: why is it so difficult to convince others of these
facts. If one main distribution included TDE, I'm sure many more people
would "rediscover" why KDE 3 was good.
Thierry