Scott Walde wrote:
> things all the time. Us "more polished distro" users had a certain
> degree of respect for those who could actually get Slackware to do what
> they wanted. I guess those days are long gone, eh?
If that means that it's been a while since I've had to manually install
plugins, yea. I had to go look at my script which I used to use to
track daily Mozilla builds to figure out where I was sticking plugins
(~/.mozilla/plugins) and stick the new .so in there (and remove the old
flash player stuff and a Java plugin from 2003 that has been the source
of much swearing the one time I enabled Java).
My whole point is that Ubuntu is great until it fails, and then I might
as well be running Slackware. Trying to do things the Ubuntu way
involves all this software getting in my way and making assumptions
about how I want to use my computer. At least on the Mac, these
assumptions are close enough to right more often (and then there's
Windows, which makes the STUPIDEST ASSUMPTIONS EVER -- like minimization
of a windows == swap out all that processes' RAM pages WTF?!).
It took me longer to write this response than to update my plugin the
Slackware way :p
Received on Sun Oct 22 13:41:47 2006
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