Old Habits are Hard to Break
Mon, 2008-03-24 08:29 — Matthew Davidson
Robin 'Roblimo" Miller has an interesting bit of flamebait over at Linux.com, talking about why it's so hard to switch operating systems or desktop environments withing the one operating system. His point seems to be that our deeply-held preferences are established by first impressions (or even chance), then entrenched by habit, no matter how vigorously we might argue that we have a rational basis for them.
I'm not sure I agree with him; GNOME is a better desktop environment than KDE; both are easier to use than the WIndows or Mac user interface; nano is a sensible choice for a programmer's text editor, because... ah... okay, maybe he's got me there. ^O ^X
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What a long, rambling article. It seems he's comparing Ubuntu with Kubuntu rather than Gnome with Kde. I've never had a problem with Thunderbird on Kde.
I got a good laugh out of Matthew's post. Gnome is better than Kde, very droll, ha, ha. I stopped using Gnome when a Kde app wouldn't work properly on it. I eventually got sick of the gimmicks on Kde and changed to Xfce.
So, old dogs can learn new tricks. The way I configure Kde and Xfce, they end up looking pretty much the same. They work differently, however, and that's why I stay, not without complaints, with Xfce.
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