[digiKam-users] Printing - I need help!

[Chris Green]

Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The issue is more subtle than that.  :-)
> >
> > I agree wholly with your sentiments above and there are places where I
> > do contribute, however Digikam is a bit out of my 'spectrum' being KDE
> > based (among other things).
> >
> 
> Do you mean 'out of your spectrum' because digiKam is based on KDE ?
> 
Yes, sort of, it's also not the sort of software I'm particularly
familiar with (I'm more into low level 'interact with the hardware'
stuff).

> 
> Ubuntu is a error. the default desktop try to re-invent the wheel. This is
> why it's have been abandoned and Gnome is back at home.
> 
I actually use xubuntu on all my systems (well, apart from the
headless ones), so all the gnome/unity/etc. stuff just passes me by! 


> As i already said in this room before, i tried all main Linux box
> available, at home and in my office. Ubuntu is the most weird Linux system
> that i see. I crash the system very quickly (where other box work as
> expected). I see my students in my office crying about the system because
> it's weird designed. This is why i always refused to support this (and i
> think i'm not alone in Open Source).
> 
I think you're in a bit of a minority there, Ubuntu is *still* very
popular.  I went through Slackware, RedHat/Fedora and a couple of
others before I settles on xubuntu. (Ubuntu is number 3 on Distrowatch).


> It's not a critic about Debian. It's about Ubuntu desktop and the rest
> around.
> 
A couple of my systems are actually Debian derived rather than Ubuntu.
As I said though I don't use the Ubuntu desktop.

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Chris Green
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