Of Linus, KDE, and mouse buttons

[John Fruhwirth]

Thanks Chris,

Mush appreciated!

...John

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, John Fruhwirth wrote:
> ...
> > So, as I understand it, if I'm an Ubuntu user then I'm pretty well stuck
> > with GNOME, right?
>
>      No, you can run any DE or WM you like.
>
> > If so, what distro of Linux should I go to as a non developer.  If not,
> how
> > do I switch to KDE?
>
> sudo apt-get install kde-base
>
>     (I'm not sure if that's the correct package name; look in synaptic).
>
>
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> >> At the last NewTLUG meeting someone mentioned the frustration of not
> >> being able to map the middle mouse under GNOME. The first reply was
> "why
> >> would you want to do that"?
> >>
> >> The attitude behind such replies seem to be at the heart of Linus
> >> Torvalds' traditional dislike of GNOME and preference for KDE,
> >> re-articulated recently (and actually using the mouse issue as an
> >> example!):
> >>
> >> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8745257437.html
> >>
> >> Interesting reading.
> >>
> >> - Evan
> >>
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