[Mageia-discuss] Thoughts on an install

Fri Sep 30 19:47:29 CEST 2011

On 8 June 2011 13:04, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> 2011/6/8 Renaud (Ron) Olgiati <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org>:
+>> On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011 04:21 my mailbox was graced by a message from
+>> Wolfgang Bornath who wrote:
+>>
+>>> >> Maybe we should think less of what the prog owners do, and more on
+>>> >> whether or not the users want/need the prog ?
+>>
+>>> > +1
+>>
+>>> Good, tell that to the owners.
+>>> Sometimes I think that some users are like little kids. They see it,
+>>> they want it, and they don't care about anything else.
+>>> What do you say to a kid asking for that yellow bike which belongs to
+>>> another kid?
+>>
+>> For many years now, when people asked my advice on which OS to use, my reply
+>> was "what software do you need to use, and what OS does it run under ?"; then
+>> told them to use that OS, whatever it was (Yes, even MS Windows  ;-3) and I do
+>> the same for my personal use: if a distro does not run the prog I need, that I
+>> am used to, etc. I will not use that distro.
+>
+> Right, same as I do. I never had a problem running Windows for a
+> special app which was not available in Linux. And I never had a
+> problem with using a Gnome app in a KDE environment if the Gnome app
+> better suited my needs.
+>
+>> I do not see the point of learning the complexities and vagaries of a new
+>> drafting prog when the one I know is available on another distro that runs
+>> without problem (for now), just for the sake of "being a Mageia user".
+>
+> Yes, quite right, same as I do. We totally agree on this.
+>
+> Now, how is this related to the issue at hand?
+>
+> --
+> wobo
+>
+
+As a follow up on qcad, we have librecad rc2 in cauldren, which as
+misc said is the qt4 port of qcad.
+
+It has been working well for me.
+