On Saturday 26 February 2022 11:34:07 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Saturday 26 February 2022 19.31:12 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > >. I used to say of Gnome, well, at least it's not as bad as > > KDE4/5, etc., but now I begin to think maybe it's much worse than the > > rest. > > I don't remember what you use for a distribution but I have the feeling > that most desktops (and *many* applications) simply rely on gnomish > material. > > Maybe building something like Gentoo from scratch could give a base system > totaly Gnome-free - I don't know. > > So the question is - is there a really good reason to try to avoid them > competely (no troll, just a question). As far as I am concerned I am happy > if they don't mess with my system in a way I feel. > > Thierry No problem, no troll intended, no troll perceived. Well, let's suppose that I *don't* use icecat or palemoon or seamonkey or vivaldi-snapshot, since they are rather non-mainstream, third-party repositories, etc. (As I said, they are all stand-alone items, nothing added.) For sake of argument, that sounds reasonable. Still, however, firefox doesn't work, and that's basically, comes already installed with most systems; not only Devuan, but all Debian-based, and probably most other Linux distros. It's not that I wouldn't like to learn Gentoo and other distros, but I am getting old, and want to use my computer to finish some work that has taken literally decades to bring to completion; and I am almost there. I don't have decades of life left. I want to use my computer for things besides learning more about computers. If there is some way for me to resolve this, and to get a working computer with internet access - and more importantly, some kind of working office software that I can actually use - then I am willing to try. But I think it's unreasonable that I must relearn everything every few years. I need to make the most of the years that I have left, not waste my time fighting against the machines. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
