[CS-FSLUG] NI: Why Linux isn't too fat & MS hurts customers

Nathan T. celerate at gmail.com
Sun Oct 16 15:22:50 CDT 2005


On 10/15/05, David Aikema <daikema at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/15/05, Eduardo Sanchez <lists at sombragris.org> wrote:
> > OTOH, if you use KDE, you'll get consistency. Why use Mozilla, when you
> > have Konqueror?
>
> It's because my (subjective) impression is that Mozilla Firefox is
> still a better browser than Konqueror - hence I use Konqueror as file
> manager and Firefox as web browser.
>
> Wherein Windows you have all group[s basically working with the save
> set of widgets and dialog boxes, in Linux there are a number of
> different such conventions. I don't think that any one widget set /
> GUI library has a monopoly on the "best" applications. Why use
> something "good" when you can use something "better" or "best"?
>

Did you know you could copy and past simply by highlighting what you want to
copy and then middle clicking where you want it pasted, it works with every
distribution I've ever used and it works agross toolkits.
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