[conspire] greetings from latest debian mint " linux " supposed kde4

[bruce coston]

Don't wonder why Linux lost market share recently :
I got the current debian mint version of " kde " 4 " working " - WOW what a stinker , you can't even escape the slab to get a root programs menu like what a human interface has ! Recent versions of kde4 let you do that but not this filth . 

It's no surprise that the recent " corporate " version of Pardus uses a KDE3 variant , apparently foreign corporations don't desperately hate their employees . Last I saw Oracle Linux has real KDE too . 

Just because the dying company maned Microsoft moved the panel somewhere bad and destroyed their start menu with the " slab " abomination does not make it a good idea . As an analogy microsoft coders changed their start button as a form of pissing their names in the snow . AND now your users don't really expect such microsoft errors any  more . [ More mobile devices ship now than computers and microsoft stinks at mobile , the handwritings on the wall , barring serious changes microsoft = dead . ] 

Honestly , as a manager who authorized all this research etc. do you really want to tell your boss " we couldn't make any improvements " or cite some study of small sample size that claims an improvement and gets you promoted , just like the eventual B of A president who had recommended a bunch of ultimately bad loans in S. America but realized he could climb the ladder before it went bad .  Enron suffered a similar quirk of perverse promotions before their hugely unexpected bankruptcy , unless you looked at the accounting exemptions they got from congress .

Can't get a visual tool with root privledges for anything from any password on this system when running the " kde " no matter what , not even installing their " kdesudo " ! 

Did the new user interface folks try to implement more " features " that oppose the known preferable methods from user research again , and I mean really doing research as opposed to polling your best buddies and declaring all other facts false . This is degenerating back to the parts of the most disfunctional gnome human interface guidelines where I found them boldly claiming " real research " proved the opposite of the real referenced findings of human interface research amid a Multiverse of obfuscations .  Kde3.x did so many things so well , like giving me the ' Be II ' window title bars when set to do that , that it suffered a giant smear campaign over bugs . Nobody does the user preferences as well as they did . The side panel here truly stinks when compared to the old kde3 style of implementation . 

Grub2 seemed to find some more things it can maybe boot as a side effect of me  changing the default boot entry . I Desperately wish it had found them earlier . 
My cat insists I stop now
 - Bruce ...
Murder adding the trinity repositories to sources.lst of my installation
 of the? most recent debian variant of Mint and they don't appear to 
work . Does anyone know how to fix it ? I'm not sure squeeze was the 
right version but nothing downloads from pearson or sometimes debian at 
all . Is this new version churn from debian . I'd like a " desktop 
environment " vs. this filth !

?- love and kisses - Bruce
PS. 
this bios stinks but an old enough distro cd gave me the grub error 18 
that let me figure it out . Why did grub2 change the ui. , I can only 
assume " ego - embolism " or commercial sabotage . ...



      
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