when linux was linux

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Erez,
The problem is the "desktop" concept - a bunch of applications that 
work very hard try to guess what you will do next and tell you what you 
want.

If you just run X with a window manager then you wont have this problem.

But before you blame the distros, think about how we got here. We wanted 
Linux to be an alternative to MS Windows, so we made it (at least in the 
major distro manifestations) more like MS Windows, and this has been 
relatively successful. The downside is that it really is more like MS 
Windows.

Tsom kal,

  - yba


On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Erez D wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:28:51 +0300
> From: Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com>
> To: linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: when linux was linux
> 
> i used to think that linux is a system that countrary to windows, can run multiple users with no problems
> then came the "modern" desktops
> ones that scans your disk so you could find what you want in an instant
> or do other 'windows-like' things
> 
> so we found ourselves with 6 instances of nautiluis (we have 6 users) eating all the 4 cpus
> after searching the web and failing to solve the problem, i decided to move to a lighter desktop
> so we all switched to xfce4
> but now we have 6 xfdesktop processes eating the 4 cpus, with no solution to be found
> 
> oh, when linux was linux and not trying to imitate windows ...
> 
> btw: running CentOS 6.3
> 
>

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