Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 15:47:06 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Window Manager Wars Message-ID: <370556FA.3BCBE866@uswest.net> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990402112013.6868A-100000@kalypso.cybercom.net>
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[this is long overdue to be moved to -chat] The Classiest Man Alive wrote: >On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Nocturne wrote: >: You kids today with yer fancy KDE. Back in my day we had Openlook and >: we was thankful! Now mind you I had to walk barefoot and butt-nekid >: through 50 miles of .rc's to use it, but we was happy! :-) > >I agree completely. Back in the day, people ran twm not because it was >pretty, but because it was the only thing that worked on the 2-4 MB system >that you had. Nowadays it's cheaper to buy another 32 MB of RAM to run >your favorite window manager than it is to learn to edit .rc files. > >Incidentally, I still like the fvwm family. They're graphically >attractive, highly configurable, and (most importantly, IMO) lightweight. >Sure, they went a little awry with that whole fvwm95 thing, but other than >that, it's a solid choice as a WM. I like the "older" WMs for just those reasons, I've got a server that runs X on diskless terminals, there would be no way I could run (or afford) it if they used something as huge as KDE. It's almost getting to the point where your choice of window manager is a political statement. At least it seems that way. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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