Geoff Oltmans wrote:
You seemed to be arguing that there was absolutely no
benefit to the added complexity (bloat you said)
of modern systems. Just because there's some application that you
don't
want doesn't mean that it's
necessarily wasteful though.
Sorry, but because some kids like to watch movies, everybody else has to
have a slow system ?
Some of us, actually have to work on them.
My solution to this is simple. I use the console screen as long as
possible (linux/bsd/etc.) Then, when I really need to draw schematics or
something which really needs a gui, I start it.