On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 15:47, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Friday 20 August 2004 06:50 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > | ...but I'll give you this: anyone choosing KDE over XFCE needs their head > | examined. > > Sorry dooD, but my wife would never have quit Winders if it hadn't been for > the KDE interface. Anything that is too different from Windows and it would > have been a no go from the get go. It's call xenophobia, and 90% of the > Windows users have it. All these folks want is an OS interface that is easy > to use and understand, and especially one that they don't have to learn from > scratch. Xfce, as much as I like it, is too different to be of use to your > average Windows convert. Ditto for Enlightenment, Ice, and even Gnome. My > wife described Gnome as "weird looking and ugly". Any Windows user can > convert to KDE without giving it much thought, and that makes it a useful > interface, in my book. The other window managers are pretty much for geeks, > even though many (most) are really more intelligently designed (that, I > think, we can agree on).
KDE is also good for converting a Mac user as well - because you can completely change the layout to be exactly like a Mac - and even go so far as to be like OS/X... FOR NEWBIES, that is... It appears as though once someone gets sufficiently proficient in GNU/linux, other window managers and desktop environments get tried and tested; both women and men; and once they find something comfortable, that is where they tend to stay. I have, however, been able to check out a few folks in the past that have never used a Mac or a Windows based machine; and in meeting their simple needs (email, websurfing, word processing) I have been able to give them a linux desktop right from the get-go; to them, anything else is strange and unusual and unfriendly... -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. The boss returned from lunch in a good mood and called the whole staff in to listen to a couple of jokes he had picked up. Everybody but one girl laughed uproariously. "What's the matter?" grumbled the boss. "Haven't you got a sense of humor?" "I don't have to laugh," she said. "I'm leaving Friday anyway.
____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ____________________________________________________
