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There are dozens of options on Linux for people who love to tweak every little detail of the setup Only dozens? I've over 16000 files ending in rc, cnf, conf,

There are dozens of options on Linux for people who love to tweak every little detail of the setup Only dozens? I've over 16000 files ending in rc, cnf, conf, cfg, ini, config, and that's not counting additional compile-time configurations available to me. A quick sampling of those files shows that many of them contain 10-20 options. do we really need yet another one Depends who "we" is. The people in OP's linked thread clearly do. I haven't touched the vast majority of the thousands of options available to me, because I'm happy with the defaults. My definition of "user-friendly" includes super-technical users who want to fine-tune their system to their needs. Fortunately, my system allows me to do that for most settings I feel competent and opinionated enough to change.

dagw 13y ago
Only dozens? I mean dozens of desktop options, not dozens of config options. If configuring all those things is important to you, then perhaps Gnome 3 is not for you, and that's totally OK. You even admit to not using Gnome 3 and have found something that works better. Not all desktops need to have the same design philosophy, in fact I think it's a good thing that they don't.
dfc 13y ago
Only dozens? I've over 16000 files ending in rc, cnf, conf, cfg, ini, config, With all due respect I have to say "bullshit." What command did you use to come up with that figure? root@ronin:/tmp# tree -ifa / > /tmp/hn.bs root@ronin:/tmp# cat hn.bs |grep -v src\$ |grep -v /bin/ |grep -v -- "-"\>|grep -vi backup | grep -v dfc/linux-kernel |grep -v /samurai | wc 2513 2540 128342 That is just a cursory attempt to eliminate false positives.
- jeremysmyth 13y ago
  Even with your more rigorous method than my handwavey one, I think it's fair to say you made my point even more than I did ;) (substitute "16000" in my post with "2513" from yours, and see if it changes my meaning one iota).
  - dfc 13y ago
    I think it makes your argument seem disingenuous and that certainly does not help make your point.

dagw 13y ago

Only dozens? I mean dozens of desktop options, not dozens of config options. If configuring all those things is important to you, then perhaps Gnome 3 is not for you, and that's totally OK. You even admit to not using Gnome 3 and have found something that works better. Not all desktops need to have the same design philosophy, in fact I think it's a good thing that they don't.

dfc 13y ago

Only dozens? I've over 16000 files ending in rc, cnf, conf, cfg, ini, config, With all due respect I have to say "bullshit." What command did you use to come up with that figure? root@ronin:/tmp# tree -ifa / > /tmp/hn.bs root@ronin:/tmp# cat hn.bs |grep -v src\$ |grep -v /bin/ |grep -v -- "-"\>|grep -vi backup | grep -v dfc/linux-kernel |grep -v /samurai | wc 2513 2540 128342 That is just a cursory attempt to eliminate false positives.

jeremysmyth 13y ago
Even with your more rigorous method than my handwavey one, I think it's fair to say you made my point even more than I did ;) (substitute "16000" in my post with "2513" from yours, and see if it changes my meaning one iota).
- dfc 13y ago
  I think it makes your argument seem disingenuous and that certainly does not help make your point.