Re: ...best place to ask questions and to get help?

Because a choice has to be made, a compromise between performances and ergonomy.

But Linux always let you the choice for GUI, you just have to install it.

If it bugs, it is just misprogrammed. I don't know windowMaker, I can't adivse you on it...




Le 27/03/2015 18:53, Mark Filipak a écrit :
> On 03/27/2015 07:22 AM, Jean-Roch HUET wrote:
>> I guess Enlightment has been chosen pour resources reasons.
>>
>> But If GoboLinux is a Normal Linux, we may be able to install KDE like any other program. Or any other GUI...
> 
> Thanks Jean-Roch, but if I want to try WindowMaker, for example, how do
> I do it?
> 
> When I launch Synaptic and submit "WindowMaker", in the resulting list,
> if I select 'wmaker' and pretend that I want to install it, Synaptic
> says I need to also install 'libwings2' & 'libwraster3' & 'libwutil3' &
> 'wmaker-common'. Is it that simple? Or is that a path to disaster. The
> reason I ask is that I need to be cautious because I have a history of
> doing things that software developers don't expect.
> 
> ...When I lived in Silicon Valley, my programmer friends would give me
> their software to play with because if I didn't break it, it was
> unbreakable. I didn't try to break their code. I'd just play with their
> application "...Hmmm... What happens if I do 'this' _before_ I do
> 'that'? What if I do them at the same time? And what happens if I hit
> the keyboard key for 'x' at the same time I'm selecting 'y' with the
> mouse?..." I wouldn't intentionally try to break their code, and I
> wouldn't have to struggle with it. Their carefully tested code would
> break almost immediately when I got my hands on it. I guess I'm just
> good at doing unexpected things. I didn't care what the code actually
> did, I'd just play the application like a video game. People said I
> should be a beta tester, but I was making way too much money designing
> hardware. (I think my talent had something to do with designing hardware
> ...fixing bugs after the hardware has been fabricated gets very
> expensive, even when the hardware is a preproduction prototype, and in
> 25 years, only one thing I designed needed a couple of cuts & jumpers,
> and that was because of ambiguous documentation from a particular chip
> manufacturer.)
> 
> A rhetorical question you can't answer but that someone _should_
> address: Why am I not given a UI choice? Why has someone decided I need
> Enlightenment?  ;-!
> 
> Ciao - Mark.
> 
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