Re: X is dead. Long live windows.

Tuomo -- I certainly respect your opinion.  When it comes down to it,
this is your distribution list, and I would not be a part of it if I
did not want to read about your ideas and thoughts.  So, I wish you do
not take offense to anything I am about to say.  I do not want you to
think I am providing anything more than an ignorant view from a
desktop user.

It seems to me, that if this is what "killed" X, than Windows 95 was
the death of Windows.  And if that had not done the trick, Windows ME
and Vista were two pointblank shots to the temple, leaving a rotting
carcass behind.

However, truth be told, I am not one to firmly state one OS is better
than another.  I use both Windows XP and Linux and am quite happy.  I
tend to think far to much energy is spent trying to convince others of
a particular operating system's superiority over another.  I think all
have great features that can be utilized.

But, like I said, having very little in the way of true programming
experience, I am an ignorant, if not blissfully ignorant user.  I just
see irony in you outlying the increase memory use, cpu power, and
battery consumption; my wife's new laptop with Vista is all that, and
more bothersome for me, it is way to colorful.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The X we all knew is dying, and it's being killed by its developers.
>
> As their latest onslaught, the Xorg dickheads have removed
> SaveUnders from X. Expect flicker when dragging tabs or
> moving windows under Ion and a new and rusy X. They want you
> to implement and use a heavy memory, cpu, and battery-hungry
> composite manager instead... and do not provide a generic
> one worth shit.
>
> They do not follow the original design of X and extend it;
> they gradually replace everything with crap and remove the
> old ways of doing things. Soon on their list will be core
> the good old fonts, as they want you to use their blur-fascist
> fantasies. It's impossible to keep up with the shit that the
> FOSScracy throws at you, unless you're one of the big
> corporate-sponsored projects that is already part of the FOSScracy.
>
> The lamers even banned me from posting on the list. Censorship,
> silencing the critique. Sure sing of an incompetent tyranny.
>
>
> It was a good time to switch to Windows. X as we knew it will
> soon no longer be.
>
>
> Something to laugh at:
>
> On the same tread, the fuckwits discuss how they need some way
> to identify displays for DPI settings etc... after they removed
> simple display identification by switching from the good old X
> multihead o Xinerama/Xrandr crap.
>
>
> --
> In 1995, Linux was almost a bicycle; an alternative way of live to the
> Windows petrol beasts that had to be taken to the dealer for service.
> By 2008, Linux has bloated into a gas-guzzler, and the cycle paths
> have been replaced with polluted motorways.
>
>



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