I saw yet another gurgle of literary barf this morning .. why kde is better than gnome why I love gnome more than kde why gnome sucks why kde sucks omfg/./.

OK -- everyone together now so we can be heard - LOL!!!. And another right-away, I'm guilty - I probably wrote the same crap in the past. I was a hack.

But I'm cured now. And everyone else needs to be as well.

You like (Gnome, KDE, OpenBox, Fluxbox, Xfce4, fvwm...ad infinitum - damned pesky fleas.) : cool. WOOHOO!!! Today is your day. You ROCK! Everybody gather 'round so we can all celebrate with h'mer.

Jubilation.

Can we all be over this now? Honestly - I like green better than red. Are we still cool? Did it matter that I tell you that? Let's talk about bigger, more important things now. Let's get realistic and relevant.

Let's talk about Linux giving us the choice to have whatever friggen DE we like. At our own pace, with our own craziness. My friend likes Gnome. What a sellout, right? Not.

I still love him - he's my friend. I could care less how he suffers at the end of the day on his box because it's his own madness and he rocks for doing it his way. That's probably why he's my friend in the first place.

Come to think of it.

I enjoy my pet DE because I'm who I am. That's it -- I do what works for me and guess what? I cannot do it on a Windows box. No way. Operating within the confines of Windows is a foreign thing to me -- I rock with Linux and one of the cool things is that I can paint it any way that I want. Xfce4 does it for me, at the moment. But KDE has, too. For a minute. That's just not who I am.

Gnome is like that complete tool I hang with even though I think he's a tool. I can't stand him or me for hanging out with him, Yet I do....hmmmm. Am I crazier than you?

lol, maybe.

Use what you like. Do it now, and STFU about it. Please. Nobody cares anymore and you're such a dork whoring yourself out for pageviews. lol.

My insidious opinion means about the same to you as your belly-button lint. Or, at least it should. That's what yours means to me, too. Until it caresses my ego - then I listen. See how we are? I'm no different than you. So, when I write about my own opinion I do it as an offering of a thing that works fine, indeed. As we are similar - you may, too. We introduce a n00b to our world with the intentions of being helpful because we get off on it somehow. In some way - and everybody wins, so - bonus!. We think we're so wonderful - lol. Some days I can't believe anybody is listening at all, I'm such a flawed man.

And that's cool. Well, it's not really because we're all a bunch of shills and we all attempt justification in our own way.

But the same tired crap takes its toll. Listen, we're all competitive, we all have egos, and we're all in this together. Instead of whipping out our own "tools" and posturing to the world saying -- look how massive I am -- look how much I rule -- how about we do what we're supposed to and posture Linux up there showing how much it rules.

Are we all here embracing open Source with empty souls only to say in one breath - "WOOHOO!!! It's about the .....WOOHOO!!!" and then in the next breath trying to make our own worthless opinions important, whoring our own selves out for pleasure.

Enough.

It's about concepts. In Linux you have a system and on top of that you have the pretty -- you have X. X makes your pretty desktop. Programs run in it -- the ones that use a GUI. Within your X - the pretty, you can open a window into system --

terminal-fu

You can open that up and use it - react with your box in fundamental ways.

Or not--- and you don't suck because you don't - and you're just some attention whore if you say you rule because you can type a command and think it's all that. It's just terminal-fu. You either use it or you don't.

Why if you have the pretty?

There are DEs that run in X giving you a total package desktop. Gnome is one. WOOHOO!! You like Gnome. Terrific, the developers will enjoy hearing that. They made it, we didn't. We could care less that you like Gnome. Lots do, lots don't.

You don't even have to use a beast like Gnome if you don't want to. There are window managers instead that give you almost nothing on top of X (the pretty), however, you can still operate your computer very nicely, thank you very much. You may still have shortcuts to run programs, and a bunch of other tools enabling a steady and productive session at your box.

It's more the concept of having the pretty run atop of the system. This is incredibly significant because you may have other "prettys". We have Xorg now. Used to be another pretty on top of the system. The concept of providing a stable and modular foundation is the significant argument here and not our lame opinions.

Having a system upon which we can run X, our pretty GUI, within which we can run desktop environments like KDE or less fancy window managers like IceWm is wicked. If we must, let's actually do those people we're trying to impress a favor and relieve them of our opinions and install 3 or 4 options on our desktops that we can login to one, step back, and let them play around.

Show them how to log in and out and how to choose the environment they want to log into. There ya go --

Later, when they settle on one or 2 and they have some questions - hook them up, if you really know the answer. It's no crime to say - "I don't know".

My post here today is just another reason why computers suck.