No problem with that. Dialog and discussion is important. When the dialog stops, the war begins.
I totally understand that people can have opposite opinions to which I may never agree, but that does not imply that I do not respect the "opposite" side. I sometimes like to be a bit confrontational, but I try not to become abusive ;-)

There are of course always trolls to prove that there are exceptions to the rule... but luckily, this forum has very little of those.

Eric

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Your KDE 5 rant was spot on. As they say in France, "il n'y a que la vérité qui blesse". Only the truth hurts.

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Facts hurt worse than truths ever can though.

A truth is only manipulated perception, and a lie is only manipulated perception as well, however, facts are facts whether they are seen as truth or not. A fact can neither be a truth or a lie, it can only be presented.

A fact hurts only if it is perceived

Failing to perceive facts only makes the person in question failing to perceive them, ignorant, of which ignorance is not excusable when it comes to common sense and founded practice.

The ignorant always want to make excuses for their ignorance and create workarounds for their ignorance to avoid the facts they know threaten them outright, and perform every act imaginable to suppress facts behind false truths, hear-say, and senseless gobbledegook. Call it megalomania, narcissism, maybe even denial, but when facts are presented and the veil of false truths are torn down, the ignorant will always retreat knowing without a doubt they've been soundly defeated.

Right now there's about two or three, maybe even four, websites out there that have presented a plethora of well known and established facts surrounding a fadware craze sweeping GNU/Linux, and the ignorant do their best to round up their useful idiots to try and refute these claims time and time again, and when they can't, they resort to low-brow tactics with their underlings to try and suppress the facts, which sadly has not worked to their advantage, and has only made them look even worse, if not completely stupid.

I read it today. A very nice interview.

Eric is a far more accomplished Linux user than I--I appreciate and use his repo--and his comments capture why I appreciate the elegant simplicity of Slackware.

Aside:

I'm going to keep saying "elegant simplicity" until it becomes the tagline for Slackware.

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Slackware is elegant GNU/Linux simplicity at it's finest.

It's so amazing simple, beautiful, refined, and respected a distribution that the most complex, condescending, and obtuse person in all GNU/Linux when asked about Slackware could only reply with, "Slackware? Oh God..." as if he had no words capable of poorly analyzing and describing Slackware.

I wish :-

Mr. Workman
Ponce
mrgoblin

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Patrick on mylinuxrig.com next.

Regards.

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... and mancha!

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All you have to do is ask... He'll interview anyone, or so it seems.

I test drive a variety of distros(I'm a curious sort), but, Slackware is and always will be my home. I depend on Slackware and it always delivers.

Great interview and great screenshot.
Is your cat?

Is it just me or does firefox not like that tubmler site. Anyone's blog on there is stupid slow.

I moved into Cyber security a while back so if I don't have everyone pissed off at me then I need to try harder

I actually worked with one of the original writers of vi. Was Mark Horton but now Maryann Horton. I was on the Windowz team she on the unix side.