Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Ramblings on KDE after 10 YEARS of Gnome" video.

  1. 08:40 Don’t be scared about running GNOME apps under KDE. Lots of people do it (and the other way round).
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  2. 11:45 SuSE had a good installer, too. That’s what my biggest Linux-using client was running at the time, so I switched away from Mandrake to that on my own Linux machine. Then I also set up servers with SuSE for this other client that was getting more heavily into Linux.
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  3. 09:15 Actually, their architectures for accomplishing common tasks are shared a lot in common nowadays. E.g. the use of D-Bus as the common high-level IPC mechanism.
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  4. 11:31 Hey, the first non-Apple PC I bought -- a Pentium-4 Shuttle in 2004 -- came with a copy of Mandrake 9.1 “Discovery Edition” in the box. The “Discovery” bit meant that it was missing the 3rd CD with the developer tools. So one of my early experiments in Linux tweaking was figuring out how to download and install those tools from the online repo.
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