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Microsoft assumes that the users don't know what they're doing. Unix
famously assumes that the users *do* know what they're doing.
Sometimes, two casualties of the latter assumption are the principle of
least astonishment and the principle of least damage. (That's why the
very first thing I did after I installed GNU/Linux was to alias the cp,
mv, and rm commands in my .bashrc.)
I had quite a few KWrite windows open to various files I was working on,
most of them POV-Ray files. Somehow or another, I clicked on something
wrong somewhere, and every single last one of my windows instantly
vanished, before I knew what had even happened.
I find KDE far easier to navigate than recent Microsoft Windows
desktops. (Why is it that every time Microsoft makes its products more
user friendly, I find them more difficult to use than ever?) But KDE
has its quirks. Like discarding the clipboard when I close a document.
(Or maybe not; I haven't figured out the rules.) Or allowing me to
close multiple windows by accident. I've lost multiple active console
sessions this way.
Dammit, I can't remember everything I was working on. And KWrite's
"recent documents" algorithm operates in nonlinear time. Maybe if I
rewatch the movie _Arrival_, they will all come back to me.
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On 3/31/2017 6:16 AM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> Microsoft assumes that the users don't know what they're doing. Unix
> famously assumes that the users *do* know what they're doing. Sometimes,
> two casualties of the latter assumption are the principle of least
> astonishment and the principle of least damage. (That's why the very
> first thing I did after I installed GNU/Linux was to alias the cp, mv,
> and rm commands in my .bashrc.)
>
> I had quite a few KWrite windows open to various files I was working on,
> most of them POV-Ray files. Somehow or another, I clicked on something
> wrong somewhere, and every single last one of my windows instantly
> vanished, before I knew what had even happened.
>
Nightmare. :(
> I find KDE far easier to navigate than recent Microsoft Windows
> desktops. (Why is it that every time Microsoft makes its products more
> user friendly, I find them more difficult to use than ever?)
They are not for technical products, now. They are for consumer units.
It is a different way of thinking. And a very annoying way, to my way of
thinking.
> But KDE
> has its quirks. Like discarding the clipboard when I close a document.
> (Or maybe not; I haven't figured out the rules.) Or allowing me to
> close multiple windows by accident. I've lost multiple active console
> sessions this way.
>
Phew! back to the day's of DOS.
I'm going to stick with Win7 for as long as I can.
> Dammit, I can't remember everything I was working on. And KWrite's
> "recent documents" algorithm operates in nonlinear time. Maybe if I
> rewatch the movie _Arrival_, they will all come back to me.
>
It can't do any harm.
--
Regards
Stephen
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