No KDE vs GNOME: make a statement against flame wars
October 24, 2006 — liquidat
Yes, I’m still learning for my exams, but this is just too important:
Through the blogosphere I got the news there there is yet another stupid, energy wasting flame war about GNOME and KDE. We had this already, so I repeat somehow, I’m afraid: there is no battle, and everyone flaming about the difefrences and the pro and cons is a dumb jackass.
In realtiy, the projects work together, and the users pretty often use apps from both worlds. Hey, even people who are very focussed on one of both solutions have a look at the other side once in a while and report about it quite excited.
So, please, if you are a GNOME or a KDE user: it is no problem to have technical discussions about advantages and disadvantages - both can benefit from it pretty much! But, keep away from dumb flame wars! If one person says “desktop a is slower than b” ask for numbers - I’m pretty sure he will not have any reliable numbers! The same is true for almost all other typical flame arguments.
So, to really make a statement against such flame wars, I would like to introduce two new, simple buttons I made:
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Use these buttons to show that you are against flame wars - and that you support both desktop environments, no matter if you actually use their software or not. The best is to link them to a page which shows even more dramatic that you dislike these dumb flamewars, and that you will not tolerate any attempt to spread FUD between these both.
And yes, you can have the buttons, copy them, or link to my versions on my flickr page, they will not disappear.
Just make a statement against these dumb flames. It is time to show these people that they are not wanted in the community and that they are not part of the community!
October 25, 2006 at 4:09
Just out have curiosity, have you looked at the great vi/emacs debate? It’s been going on for years. (Maybe even decades)
October 25, 2006 at 14:10
Yes - and it never helped anyone, but in reality that debate doesn’t matter. The point is: emacs vs vim will never reach any average user, and the debate will only harm these few people who actually use the programs. Most average users or users coming from other platforms will most certainly stick to another program at the beginning.
KDE vs GNOME, on the other hand, reaches almost every user and would also reach most average users. (Not the vim/emvcs guys, these use their own wms, I guess
), And when a debate heats up again, including statements from important people, than the average user as well as ISVs listen, and maybe turn away.
October 28, 2006 at 10:33
Nice buttons and I am putting one on my blog.
October 28, 2006 at 15:21
Thanks!
December 29, 2006 at 1:47
I realise this comment is late but why are flame wars bad? You just seemed to take it for granted that we all know. Personally I find them a highly amuzing spectator sport.
December 29, 2006 at 15:05
Fighting flame wars is destroying the bridges which are necessary between the different parts of the community.
Fighting flame wars between Gnome and KDE means destroying projects like Tango, freedesktop.org or even DBus. Read some good books fro amusement, that’s much better than downward comparison.
July 31, 2007 at 5:30
yes,
I’m happy there is somebody who thinks like I do, and uses the appropriate app (kde/gnome) whenever required to do so.
keep the good work.
November 24, 2007 at 19:47
This really does not make much sense. Why would anyone who does not care state that they does not care? They don’t care, do they‽
November 25, 2007 at 1:17
Daniel, the idea is to state that you are against flame wars - and that you care about the good relationship between the projects.
But fortunately flame wars didn’t appear anyway in the last months, so maybe this entire problem is gone - although I can hardly believe it…
December 4, 2007 at 20:27
Good for you, I totally agree, I tend to switch DEs a fair bit to get to know them all, and understand all their good points. The whole debate is old, uninteresting and contrary to the element of choice which so many cite as the compelling reason to use and feel strongly about Linux anyway. More power to you.
More of this sort of thing!
April 9, 2008 at 12:34
in the same vein :
http://vinnl.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/07/1415655-why-linux-desktop-fragmentation-is-a-good-thing
April 9, 2008 at 17:51
Thanks for that one.