Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:45:22 -0800, Patty wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM,  <patty at cruzio.com> wrote:
>>
>> Now I think I understand a little better where you all are coming from
>> -- I am a Unix person and I guess I expected to have to learn GUI's
>> using whatever is provided for me by default. Which isn't a bad thing.
>> And if I had to add additional software - and learn that - so be it. I
>> am using a Windows XP system and a Windows 7 system presently. Some day
>> I would like to switch out the Windows XP for Unix.
> 
> Just dual boot, it isn't hard.
> 
> 
> True.  I have a Compaq Presario that is so old hardware-wise that I
> don't think it could handle Unix or Linux.


I think you have that backwards. You can usually run recent Linux on 
*much* older and cruftier hardware than will run recent Windows.

You may have to forgo using the two heavyweight window managers, Gnome 
and KDE, in favour of a lightweight window manager, but some people would 
argue that's a benefit rather than a loss :)

Here's an article that might be of interest:

http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT6185716632.html



-- 
Steven