[Techtalk] Re: Uninstalling SOT office, etc. & SuSE 8.0/KDE 3

[Marian Routh]

On Wednesday May 01 2002 1:47 pm, techtalk-request at linuxchix.org wrote:
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I hope everyone will forgive my snipping all the back and forth on this 
subject - it was getting lengthy and I just wanted to thank all of you 
for the good, thoughtful advice.  I printed out all your suggestions, 
and I may even try the irc, even though I've never done that before.

Bottom line, in Linux I'm wild and crazy and so I just wound up doing 
the dangerous stupid thing and logged in as root and nuked everything 
associated with SOT.  So far, everything seems to work fine.  I'm 
usually a cautious person and I like to do computing things "the right 
way", but then again, reinstallation is always an option.  Also, I was 
royally p*ss*d at the way this program handled itself.

Yes, I'm sorry to say it, but apparently Windows programmers don't have 
a monopoly on what I consider rude software behavior - putting their 
programs in start-up (in the Windows world), associating themselves 
unasked, dumping files all over the hdd and in a non-standard manner, 
and then being difficult to remove.  I must say, though, that this bad 
behavior seems to be the exception rather than the rule in Linux. 

As for liking SuSE 8.0 and KDE 3.0, I think they are fantastic.   I'm 
very pleased.

Thanks again - you are all the greatest!

Cheers,

Marian
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