On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:01:36PM +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Thursday 18 May 2006 08:08, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > > Well you argue that KDE has all the necessary features and then you > > go on to call it bloatware because it has those features.
> > No. Even KDE doesn't match up with Windows' UI. I call it bloatware > because it consumer a lot more memory than GNOME and is generally > slower than GNOME. But a heck lot more userfriendly than GNOME. > As a freelance computer maintainence engineer in the SOHO segment, my experience has been that it is not the desktops or decoration that makes a difference even to a home user, it is the functionality of the OS in supporting the various non-standard softwares that generally go into a windows system that make a difference. Email, internet, documentation is fine but theres more to it than that. If linux gives better security and stability they are willing to change their OS, subject to all their regular work being executed in linux too with full migration of data. This is something not possible as of now. some examples are:- 1) Banking websites insist on using IE. 2) BOLT and other share trading softwares are available for M$ only. 3) Tally does not have a replacement in linux and its data cannot be ported to any other equivalent linux based software that works just like it. 4) People are used to Corel Draw, Photoshop,.Net, Autocad etc. 5) Accounting and invoice packages available in the trader market are M$ based. 6) Ticketing softwares for travel agents are windows based. 7) Most file sharing softwares for songs are M$ based and many live song sites run only on IE. 8) Some third party documentation softwares use MS Office as the export destination and anyway they are for the windows platform. 9) Most of the popular games are M$ based. The list can go on. Please everyone, do not discuss the individual cases as the intention is only to highlight the problems. I do not agree with the arguement put forth by Devdas that by not buying products that do not support linux we can make a difference. We can make a difference like that only if we are a majority. The market is so vast for the M$ platform that nobody really bothers about linux users. Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
