From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sans-dbus was: gnome intrusion?
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:36:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f51307d-a3f8-a8fe-719f-aa404a8d1866@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161119211734.12746.24E6124D@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
On 19/11/2016 23:23, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2016-11-19 23:07, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> Yes I know init and KDE are very very different beasts from different
>> eras with different approaches to getting stuff done and so can appear
>> completely different. But within the contact of /this/ thread, they are
>> very similar. And you don't understand one of them to anything like the
>> same standard you understand the other.
>
> I agree with this, this is the core of the issue.
>
> But you see: I don't need the features these new beasts provide. Why
> should I have to learn all that huge amount of information, crowding out
> things I actually _like_ to know from my declining memory, to keep control
> of my computing?
>
Computing is a never-ending cycle of new stuff to learn. Deal with it.
Devs are not going to stop exploring new technologies and methods just
because Ian Zimmerman is getting old.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-19 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-14 9:32 [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion? Jorge Almeida
2016-11-14 17:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-14 19:03 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-14 20:37 ` Kai Krakow
2016-11-14 21:49 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-14 23:51 ` Kai Krakow
2016-11-16 12:47 ` [gentoo-user] sans-dbus was: " Miroslav Rovis
2016-11-16 18:42 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-17 1:48 ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-17 7:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-17 9:08 ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-19 9:21 ` Kai Krakow
2016-11-19 19:06 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-19 19:16 ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-19 20:47 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-19 21:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-11-19 21:23 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-19 22:34 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2016-11-19 22:36 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2016-11-20 0:36 ` Walter Dnes
2016-11-19 21:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Tom H
2016-11-19 22:15 ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-20 18:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-11-14 23:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrew Tselischev
2016-11-14 23:52 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-15 17:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-15 19:23 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-15 19:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-11-15 19:45 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-16 2:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2016-11-16 7:23 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-16 9:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-11-16 11:25 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-16 20:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-11-16 21:20 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-17 20:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2016-11-17 20:49 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-17 23:32 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2016-11-14 23:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
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