Thanks Evan, distro of Linux <br>I happen to be the guy who brought this issue up at last Tuesday's NewTLUG meeting.<br>I'm so happy to learn that limitations of the GNOME desktop have been so hotly debated even by<b> Linus</b>!<br>
<br>So, as I understand it, if I'm an Ubuntu user then I'm pretty well stuck with GNOME, right?<br>If so, what distro of Linux should I go to as a non developer. If not, how do I switch to KDE?<br><br>...John<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Evan Leibovitch <<a href="mailto:evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org">evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At the last NewTLUG meeting someone mentioned the frustration of not<br>
being able to map the middle mouse under GNOME. The first reply was "why<br>
would you want to do that"?<br>
<br>
The attitude behind such replies seem to be at the heart of Linus<br>
Torvalds' traditional dislike of GNOME and preference for KDE,<br>
re-articulated recently (and actually using the mouse issue as an example!):<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8745257437.html" target="_blank">http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8745257437.html</a><br>
<br>
Interesting reading.<br>
<br>
- Evan<br>
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