Re: I hate the slogan "computing made easy"

[Erik Bågfors <bagfors pdc kth se>]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 04:50:55PM +0100, Toby Jaffey wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 09:42:59AM -0400, joseph@lascaux.ca wrote:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: David F. Newman <dnewman@maraudingpirates.org>
> > To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 8:09 AM
> > Subject: Re: I hate the slogan "computing made easy"
> 
> 
> > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Toby Jaffey wrote:
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> > > > > GNOME: Way better than MS Windows.
> 
> > > > No, it's not. There is not way gnome is even as stable as the windows
> > > > gui.
> 
> > huh? did I miss something ?
> > I thought Windows _was_ the gui, and _only_ the gui, and that it was so
> > tightly  strung together that the slightest change in one would cause all
> > hell to break loose. If I am right, then comparing GNOME to Windows would be
> > possible.
> 
> I am thinking of windows 3.11, which is just a gui shell. I still don't
> think that gnome is anyway near as stable as that (not in my experience
> anyway).

This is funny.  We have very different experiences.  I run gnome (with
sawfish) everyday and I can't even remeber when something crashed last.
Also my boss runs gnome (with E) and today he had an uptime without loging
out of over 100 days.  I guess we are just lucky then? :)

> (Obviously is doesn't take the machine down as much, but that's due to
> the OS, not gnome).

True..

/Erik
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