>
> Ok, I'm going to start by saying that Linux is a GREAT O/S. I think that
> people should adapt what Windows has, TO AN EXTENT. I think that linux
> should keeps it's features. I also think that someone that is a developer
> and has the guts and the time to do so, should start a linux-user-firendly
> project. If Linux had the INTERFACE of Windows, WITHOUT the Core of
> WindBLOWZ, it would work out.
There already is a GUI that emulates Windows 95/98 its called fvwm'95.
It is a window manager. One of the great things about X windows is that
you are free to choose among MANY window managers. That way, those of us
who realize that the Windows 95/98 interface is terrible, don't have to
suffer. That is how linux is user-friendly. What we do NOT need is for
linux to have the interface of Windows 95, but to have it as an option.
As I have already stated, it does.
> I think that the Windows 98 GUI is Great,
But many (most) of us don't. So we choose not to use it.
If you really do want to use it, that's fine. But don't
suggest, as you have, that it should be the "standard" interface,
or that if linux wants to be user-friendly, it adopt MicroSoft GUI design,
Linux isn't Windows. It nobody WANTS to be Windows.
X has been around much longer than 95/98.
It will outlive both, because the interface is seperate from the "core-X".
> but, the CORE of MS-DOS, Win 3.11, Win95, and Win98 SUX! WinNT isn't that
> much far off (the dreaded blue screen and the 128MB memory Dump)! I think
> Microshaft did i good job on the User Interface,
Again many of us don't. If you want a win 95 GUI in X, use fvwm95.
But leave the rest of us out!
> but failed on the Technical
> portion of the Core, for that they had to rely on hasty business tactics.
> If Linux were to adapt the Windows GUI and someone that is a GOOD developer,
> built a nice Core to the X Server...
A nice Core to the X-server?! You've got to be kidding!
What do you think the developers of X have been doing since day 1?
> It would all work out! Now that cable
> modems are out almost every where, xDSL, and ISDN (altough it's almost a
> dead technology)...Downloading Linux wouldn't be much of a hassle! It
> wouldn't take NEARLY as much time!
>
>
> -Regards
> Peeyush Singh
> BooLeaN
>
>
Bryan Scaringe
