On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Michael P. Soulier <msoul...@digitaltorque.ca> wrote: > On 14/04/09 Mark Knecht said: > >> While not a KDE user I echo your thoughts. I'm personally a bit >> worried about Gentoo overlords sort of pushing this hald thing with >> reasons like 'Gnome's automounting depends on it'. If I wanted >> automounting that's OK, but what if I don't? Eventually someone will >> remove hal as a USE flag and then what do we do? > > Would they do that? Choice is the only reason I'm using Gentoo. If my choices > go away then I'll just go back to Debian. >
I hope not. I know nothing and I'm probably being too negative, but better spoken and never true than silent and forced... >> I started in Linux about 12 years ago and the best environment for my >> needs at that time (audio recording, 32 channels of live audio, >> real-time kernels, Ardour, etc.) was fluxbox. Low overhead. Easily >> customizable. Every time I get fed up with Gnome I go back to fluxbox. >> Takes a few minutes to build, not hours like Gnome or days like KDE. >> Not a great environment for my wife and kids, so they get Gnome. > > I tend to do the same. I also use older hardware, which is half the point of > using Linux to me, and Gentoo. If Gentoo starts requiring cutting-edge > hardware then it will have outlived its usefulness to me, and defeated its own > purpose, IMHO. > Well, learn to manage your own overlays because over time portage drops stuff that old machines need. I have two machines here that were happy Gentoo'ers 3 years ago but today I wouldn't be able to build them in a meaningful way from portage. Lots of things have been dropped, not only by portage but even by ATI. Keep what you need safe. >> I hope the future of Linux desktops doesn't look anything like >> Windows. Sometimes it seems to me we're moving too far that direction >> too fast. > > Yes, the drive for adoption by Windows users is being driven by the lowest > common denominator. > Yeah, so sadly true, and there's a place for it. I'd love to see Windows destroyed by lots and lots of new happy Linux users just like the lot of us, but good choices must remain. This is not a case of one size fits all. - Mark
