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Originally posted by Matir And gnome has what to do with this?
it was just a reference to the belief held in some quarters that Gnome, fine and worthy GUI though it is, has a greater tendency to insulate the user from the command line that say KDE or flux. Much akin to how the DOS screen becomes harder to get at the further you get from 3.11
So in short it was a joke. Although now that I've had to explain it then it has ceased to be funny (if indeed it ever was). Must be a 'two peoples separated by a common language' thing.
Originally posted by otchie1 it was just a reference to the belief held in some quarters that Gnome, fine and worthy GUI though it is, has a greater tendency to insulate the user from the command line that say KDE or flux. Much akin to how the DOS screen becomes harder to get at the further you get from 3.11
So in short it was a joke. Although now that I've had to explain it then it has ceased to be funny (if indeed it ever was). Must be a 'two peoples separated by a common language' thing.
Sorry I didn't get the reference. I personally always thought of KDE as being more insulating, but I'm not in the mood to get into a DE/WM fight.
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