From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F0JBh-0001oU-1j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:53:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0LDol0n027874; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:50:47 GMT Received: from relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.182.167]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0LDmMWP005262 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:48:23 GMT Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (67-51-143-222.dsl1.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [67.51.143.222]) by relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2733580A6 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:48:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (unknown [192.168.1.3]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC54AE06E for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:48:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43D23BA2.9090600@mykitchentable.net> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:48:18 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?) References: <1137748213.12685.7.camel@localhost> <200601211408.33323.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <20060121104419.76b5883e@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060121104419.76b5883e@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.3.2 (20050629) at filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net X-Archives-Salt: 1cb9faf1-3886-40a9-bb15-f3038414bc6e X-Archives-Hash: 71e0de238531b8b82c4849d7f51ba2aa On 1/21/2006 2:44 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: >On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:08:29 +0900, Chris White wrote: > > > >>>I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. >>> >>> >>That's the most blatant start of a flamewar I've seen... >> >>Ok, let's sit here and ponder. People like KDE, people like GNOME, >>hell, people like fluxbox and xfce. Now to put this in perspective, >>basically there is no "right answer" to this question, and no matter >>how much someone suggests, there never will be. >> >> > >There is a right answer to this question, because it is simple numbers, >which is most popular. Carry out a poll of Linux users to ask which is >their favourite desktop and you have the answer. > >If you really want to start a flamewar, ask which is better. > >Better is not the same as most popular, unless you really believe that >Windows is the best OS out there. > > LOL. This could be the start of another flame war especially since it could be argued that any OS is the "best" in specific situations. Cheers, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list