[wuug-list] [wuug-forum] BJ: Re: Standalone WM, anyone?

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Author: BJ
Username:  (mailwn.dainty.ca)
Subject: Re: Standalone WM, anyone?
Forum: Software
Link: http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,91,92#msg-92
Approved: Yes

Unfortunately efficiency seems to be an idea fast losing popularity, so software "bloat" is approaching the rediculous (ie. Windows Vista).

Being raised on machine/assembly code, I cannot help but be concerned with efficiency.  I like using the mouse as little as possible, and I still get angry when I cannot view a website with lynx!  So personally, a standalone WM is right up my alley.

But Ease-of-use is what the modern desktop environment is about. Not ease-of-use for you or I, but ease-of-use for the computer noob.  And what is restriction for you or I, is bounds of safety for the noob.

Sadly, ease-of-use seems to be the opposite of efficiency.  Abstraction has its costs.

At least, the developers of KDE/gnome are not taking the M$ approach to development, which seems to be "who cares how inefficient it is, someday there will be a computer powerful enough to run it".

BJ.