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

[Don Parris]

On 10/16/05, Nathan T. <celerate at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> _______________________________________________

I actually did *not* know that.  Thank you!

Don
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