CentOS - Nov 2018 - Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024

On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 19:22, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:
> My reaction to GNOME 3 has been roughly the same as with systemd. At
> first, I hated it with a passion. Then I saw everyone else seemed to use
> it. So I started to read the docs and experiment a little bit. And now
> I'm using it on a daily basis, and to my bewilderment, I've grown
to
> like it.
>
>   * https://blog.microlinux.fr/gnome-centos/
>
>   * https://blog.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-gnome-centos-7/
>
Thanks for the readings - as someone that recently moved from 10+ years on
Ubuntu, I quite liked Unity. I'm finding Gnome a little brain dead in some
obvious-to-me-why-not-everyone-else areas.

For me, the saddest thing about this announcement is that I *still* think
Amarok is the best media player available, even if I've not used it for a
while. Installing the entire KDE base for one program is just too heavy. It
really is streets ahead of the other media players though.

Cheers
L.

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labor and an impoverished imagination of the possibilities of nonwork.'

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Le 03/11/2018 ? 10:10, Lachlan Musicman a ?crit?:
> For me, the saddest thing about this announcement is that I *still* think
> Amarok is the best media player available, even if I've not used it for
a
> while. Installing the entire KDE base for one program is just too heavy. It
> really is streets ahead of the other media players though.
For the last ten years or so, I've been using Audacious for audio and
VLC for pretty much everything else. Plus, I have a no-GUI install of
MPlayer, which I use regularly for watching videos that need some
treatment like subtitle sync. Works perfectly.

Amarok is nice, but reminds me of the "All You Can Eat" formula in a
chinese restaurant where you would be forced to eat every dish. In
France we call this "une usine ? gaz".

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On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 20:18, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:
> Le 03/11/2018 ? 10:10, Lachlan Musicman a ?crit :
> > For me, the saddest thing about this announcement is that I *still*
think
> > Amarok is the best media player available, even if I've not used
it for a
> > while. Installing the entire KDE base for one program is just too
heavy.
> It
> > really is streets ahead of the other media players though.
>
> Amarok is nice, but reminds me of the "All You Can Eat" formula
in a
> chinese restaurant where you would be forced to eat every dish. In
> France we call this "une usine ? gaz".
>
>
Ah yes. I can see that. I said media player, but I only use it for music.
And I used it very heavily - 10-12 hours a day, often with non Linux users
controlling it. It's interface was very smart and intuitive for non linux
users.


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'...postwork futures are dismissed with the claim that "it is not in
our
nature to be idle", thereby demonstrating at once an essentialist view of
labor and an impoverished imagination of the possibilities of nonwork.'

Kathi Weeks, *The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics
and Postwork Imaginaries*
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Problem-with-Work/>