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I still have nightmares about building OpenOffice. And yeah, oh boy, KDE. The only half-decent (actually worked, didn't glitch out or crash constantly, didn't
by yamtaddle 3y ago
I still have nightmares about building OpenOffice.
And yeah, oh boy, KDE. The only half-decent (actually worked, didn't glitch out or crash constantly, didn't assume you had memorized all the switches for the equivalent command-line tools, actually had all the features that anyone who used such programs would have called MVP-tier) GUI CD burning program on Linux in the early to mid '00s was a KDE program, (K3B, I think it was called?) and it'd drag in half of KDE if you installed it, so, would take hours to compile. Ugh. Here I am just wanting to mostly use Windowmaker and some GTK programs, and I've gotta compile kde-libs because I burn music CDs or isos sometimes.
- nforgerit 3y agoYeah same, Gentoo made me switch to xmonad :)
- BeetleB 3y agoYeah, it probably wasn't until later when they broke up KDE into more modular packages, and that mess went away. Personally, though, although it took a long time to compile, KDE worked just fine on my machine. OpenOffice? I think I did it a few times before switching to the binary package. k3b was awesome - thanks for that memory!