{"id":639,"date":"2008-03-21T20:12:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T01:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/03\/21\/desktop-environments-and-habits\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T20:12:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T01:12:27","slug":"desktop-environments-and-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/03\/21\/desktop-environments-and-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop environments and habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot&#8217;s Roblimo has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/129757\">article on switching<\/a> back and forth between GNOME and KDE and that will probably spawn a long (,mostly pointless) debate on the merits of GNOME versus KDE versus foo that I&#8217;m sure many Linux users will have.   The biggest gem in the article is in his discussion on why he hasn&#8217;t been converting people to use Desktop Linux<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n I don&#8217;t have time for much intense hand-holding, and that&#8217;s what it takes to teach people who are not naturally computer-inclined how to use any new operating system or software.<\/p>\n<p>Habits are hard to break.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to the people who have the time and patience to help people embark on the long journey that requires &#8216;switching&#8217;.   However, I&#8217;m with Roblimo on this.  I have a hard enough time managing my own time let alone adding more stuff to take away what I have of my time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/129757\">Read it yourself<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot&#8217;s Roblimo has an article on switching back and forth between GNOME and KDE and that will probably spawn a long (,mostly pointless) debate on the merits of GNOME versus KDE versus foo that I&#8217;m sure many Linux users will have. The biggest gem in the article is in his discussion on why he hasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}