> So why do you *choose* to spend some much time fighting against the > machine? > > Why do you insist on spending hours and days tracking down every little > package that does you no harm and eradicating it from your system (even > if doing so breaks stuff!) because it is "Gnomish"? > > At the point that you are removing packages using dpkg --purge --force-all > you are literally fighting the system and telling it that you know > better than it what libraries and packages are needed. No, I am trying to get a machine that actually works. I did try to use the defaults, but those browsers stopped working. It was because they stopped working that I tried to remove those packages. I went back to basics and started over completely, and tried installing packages and their dependencies one-at-a-time, trying to figure out where I had gone wrong (rather than following my tried-and-true method that always worked on my old desktop, where I was running Beowulf). I would return to my desktop and chuck this piece of junk laptop, but alas! my desktop is put away in storage. I am almost ready to surrender and return to Windoze. I did try to use LibreOffice, again and again, and can't use it, so I try to get OpenOffice to work. I have tried to run my system using those Gnome packages, and when it works, and I don't notice it, I don't mind so much. At this point, I find that I have spent a big pile of money on nothing, and cannot move forward. I have a machine that is only useful for a passive spectator, to listen to music and online radio and watch videos, etc., but I cannot actually use it for work. Thanks for caring, though. ;-) 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
