Linux OS "just as bloated as Windows"

...do not feed the troll. It's not worth it, really.

Regards, Dominik

Did you see the one quote, about not sacrificing efficiency for an intuitive GUI?

It was taken from the blender wiki. How dishonest is that?

There are more than a few pieces of software (hmmm...why does Photoshop come to mind? For that matter, I'll bet any number of CAD/CAM programs) following that philosophy, and, for good reason: Designing a GUI for beginners can slow down expert use, and, let's face it, you're only a beginner in the beginning.

Besides, that has nothing to do with Linux. Blender runs on Windows, too.

I have to agree that my KDE desktop isn't as responsive as I would like, but I know that help is coming. Each KDE has been a little quicker than the one before. Improvements in QT, gcc and the linker's C++ support have all helped. X seems to be moving forward thanks to the break away from Xfree86 (thanks for the license lunacy, guys...hope you're enjoying your empty cathedral).

And, of course, did this guy manage to miss the best and smoothest UI of all -- that on the MacIntosh? It runs on ....OMG!!!!...Unix!

"setting a PC up for dual boot with Linux/Windows was a harrowing experience simply due to the fact that by default, Linux installs typically wipe the entire drive clean."

*sigh* Hasn't used the XP installer once in his life, I think... (And many mainstream installers have a "make use of available free space" option, thank goodness)

ROFL...

There's sooo many factual errors in that piece it goes from angy right through hillarious and out the other end to come to a standstill somewhere between apathy and insanity.

For that matter, one can then almost write that *BSD is "just as bloated as Linux OS".

Actually these two are somewhat different *ix derivatives as is elaborated upon in both http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/bsd-linux-comparison.html and in the 'Integration' section of http://sites.inka.de/~mips/unix/bsdlinux.html among other places.

BTW, in regards to *BSD and GNU/Linux, it is fascinating that Linus Torvalds mentioned over a dozen year ago, this:

Quoting: "Actually, I have never even checked 386BSD out; when I started on Linux it wast available (although Bill Jolitz series on it in Dr. Dobbs Journal had started and were interesting), and when 386BSD finally came out, Linux was already in a state where it was so usable that I never really thought about switching. If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened."

http://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/interview.html

BTW :-D, are there enough Linux distros yet, and if there are too many now, then would Linucitis be swelling of the Linux organ (like appendix/appendicitis) ?? LOL

I've done so twice already. He just keeps changing it back to the FUD rant. And this guy claims to be an open source developer! Go to http://dedasys.com/davidw/ and you will see this blurb: "I work as a consultant under the name DedaSys. My curriculum vitae is available as HTML or PDF. My main areas of expertise involve free software, such as Linux, Debian, Apache, Tcl, Python, C, and so on. I am also interested in work that involves my knowledge of Italy and the Italian language."

There's just no telling about some people.