On 12/17/2012 03:17 AM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Mine actually gets used as a tool, fiddling around with it is the
last thing I want to do. It wastes my time having to tweak things to
get them to do what I want them to.
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
I on the other hand am curious to see the inner-workings of some of
the apps on my Fedora 17 laptop. ...but I also don't want to have to
change or edit something every time I need to get something done....si
I guess there's a sweet spot / middle ground that some folks can fit
into. I'm past the "point-and-click" phase of computing, and am going
to want to constantly learn how to do things, but I'm also no
programmer-level, super-computing, genius who can do all things with a
few lines of code.....
Oh, I'll try out new and interesting sounding software, learn how to set
up a new service, et cetera. But what I don't want to do is continually
fiddle with the desktop, itself, nor have to learn new ways to do the
same thing, over and over again (whether that be NFS requiring a new
configuration methodology to do exactly what it was doing in the prior
release, or what new hoops have to be jumped through to get the damn
nvidia card to work on the same hardware).
I see people who seem to do nothing other than continually change the
background and menus of their desktop in new and useless ways. Yes,
that is a dig at the Gnome developers, as well as fiddle-finger-users.
LoL...oh ok! I get it. Well then I am in agreement with you, I see no
reason to have to "re-learn" how to do things with certain applications
or features...just because some developers or what-have-you decided to
finagle things and make them different. I guess it's just about finding
what suits you and sticking with it?...case & point: I have a LinuxMint
box that's running 9.0 and I'm not changing it for ANY reason! Its not a
machine that I use for anything other that file storage and mail /
contacts replication....it works......doesn't need updates...and isn't
even connected to the internet....so I can see what you mean in a sense...
EGO II
EGO II
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