On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 02:31, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:19:06AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > A friend of mine has had Windows installed for over a year. He's getting > > somewhat sick of it due to the recent spate of virus and spyware that's > > rendered his machine unusable. He's asked me to reinstall Windows, and > > Linux in a dual boot configuration. > > > > IMHO don't try to emulate Windows: your solution will always seem > inferior by comparison. > > I don't have a KDE or Gnome environment; I have a killer QT3 and GTK2 > environment managed by Fluxbox, plus Moz Firebird from source. There's > other apps that "round it out" like XMMS, Mplayer, OpenOffice, abcde, > &c.; it takes about a month and a couple dozen "false starts" to learn > what that list is for you! > Yes, that may seem for you. But Joe Average needs a desktop environment that is easy to use albeit powerful enough for him. The problem is that geeks/power users can never think the way beginners do, they see things from totally different angles.
Your environment might be ok for you and maybe a dozen other power users. But it will definitely not be ok for Mr. Average who's looking for a Windows replacement OS. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]