GNU/Linux
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:50 pm
So this week's reason I'm using Debian/XFCE instead of my preferred OpenSUSE/KDE:
Mozilla bug 833117 - Does not disable glib slice allocator with glib >= 2.35
I'm not entirely sure what the fuck that means except that Firefox and Thunderbird are completely unusable. So that's cool. (Apparently this is also an issue in Sid, so it's a good thing my fallback OS is Jessie.)
I GUESS I could try a different browser and mail client under KDE, but I really don't wanna. Last time I checked KMail, it didn't even have a built-in spam filter and wanted you to configure bogofilter manually, which I am not going to do because this is not 2003 and I have outgrown my "run absolutely everything possible in the terminal" phase. At which point I wouldn't have been using KMail anyway.
Evolution was okay I guess but it did some weird shit where it refused to recognize known-good passwords, and didn't have simple context-menu options for basic tasks like creating filters. On the other hand, I don't remember it randomly disappearing my IMAP folders and making me re-add them like Thunderbird has a habit of doing, so maybe it's a wash.
And I hate every browser that's not Firefox because I don't like my images turning into blurry messes when I increase the size of my text. (Makes sense on phones -- standard reminder that we should probably not be treating a 27" computer monitor the same as a 5" phone -- and it sure makes my day job easier, but text-only zoom or GTFO.)
(I kind of hate Firefox too. I just hate it less than every other browser.)
Mozilla bug 833117 - Does not disable glib slice allocator with glib >= 2.35
I'm not entirely sure what the fuck that means except that Firefox and Thunderbird are completely unusable. So that's cool. (Apparently this is also an issue in Sid, so it's a good thing my fallback OS is Jessie.)
I GUESS I could try a different browser and mail client under KDE, but I really don't wanna. Last time I checked KMail, it didn't even have a built-in spam filter and wanted you to configure bogofilter manually, which I am not going to do because this is not 2003 and I have outgrown my "run absolutely everything possible in the terminal" phase. At which point I wouldn't have been using KMail anyway.
Evolution was okay I guess but it did some weird shit where it refused to recognize known-good passwords, and didn't have simple context-menu options for basic tasks like creating filters. On the other hand, I don't remember it randomly disappearing my IMAP folders and making me re-add them like Thunderbird has a habit of doing, so maybe it's a wash.
And I hate every browser that's not Firefox because I don't like my images turning into blurry messes when I increase the size of my text. (Makes sense on phones -- standard reminder that we should probably not be treating a 27" computer monitor the same as a 5" phone -- and it sure makes my day job easier, but text-only zoom or GTFO.)
(I kind of hate Firefox too. I just hate it less than every other browser.)