>>16
I didn't say C++ is slow, that's not why I don't recommend it. All I said is C++ sucks majorly. Refer to the corresponding thread in /prog. Besides, it's not like C++ is so much higher-level than C, easier or reasonably more productive for what it costs, so C is all you need if you want fast applications; in other words, C is for men. Of course, when you don't need CFLAGS JUST KICKED IN, you should use a high-level language like Ruby, Python, Lua, or whatever floats your boat.
>>19
KDE has better applications, common dialogs, themes and conventions than Gnome.
>>20
Lol, I didn't intend to troll, but I'm glad I did. I wasn't being the C fag, I just pointed out that you should use C for performance-critical applications, and I consider a BT client one since you want to leave it running in the background taking no significative CPU time as you do other stuff. Then I went and said you could do an email client in Python, or something like that.
>>21
You can write programs in Java when they:
a) need to be professional web 2.0 enterprise scalable AJAX business solutions
b) force you to work with Java and you can't get another job
c) need to be hell to develop, hell to maintain, hell to use, and hell to get working
d) need to use a completely obnoxious, useless, overengineered piece of shit of an API
e) need to claim to be portable, even though they aren't as much
f) are for faggots
>>24
Agreed. I use Kubuntu because I don't like to waste my time compiling shit from GNU hippies who want to make you compile shit. I do take care and change stuff I need in the system, but I haven't found Kubuntu to be a PITA against it save for the root account and spash screen insanity, which I get rid of. Of course, I'm talking about my home and work computers.