23 Sep
2004
23 Sep
'04
11:14 a.m.
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:23:01 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Does anyone else find that modern UIs with lots of
pretty grahpics are
actually getting harder to use? I'm not sure if it's just me or not!
It is
not just you. I don't like (to be very polite) this modern GNOME,
KDE or WinXP stuff.
I just wonder if I'm alone in finding modern
UI's cluttered with
unnecessary visual features which distract the user from the task
they're doing, presumably waste CPU and memory resources, and don't
actually serve to make the OS/application any easier to use?
You are not alone. I
really can't understand all this eye candy garbage.
Even on topic machines (e.g. early Alpha or SGI Indigo(2) R4k) are
capable of delivering a fast X11 workstation. That useless GNOME, KDE or
WinXP eye candy garbage can slow down a reasonible new and fast machine
so that it is slower to use then a Indigo2 R4k4-150 with 4Dwm. Toyz for
the Linuks kidz. Not my world. Long live fvwm2! (And fvwm2 is a quite
bloated WM.)
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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