On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:43:08AM +0100, Graham wrote:
I guess you won't be approving of the general tendency for KDE and Gnome to ape the Windows GUI, then. I think it's good; the command line is great when
My opinion is that KDE and Gnome are nothing like the Windows GUI, they are far more advanced and much easier to use and navigate. Indeed my experience is that many Windows users when migrated to KDE found that simple operations involving files became much easier for them and the level of integration was much better than with Windows, (although many of the Mac users were much less at home). When I have the misfortune to find myself using Windows nowadays I lament at how difficult it is to get simple tasks done, and what makes it even worse is that there is no decent command line to fall back on.
The only real major downsides to Linux desktop environments is the handling of hardware which is really a separate problem and nothing to do with Gnome/KDE and far more to do with individual distros and the kernel versions they have and the way hotplug/udev etc. work out the box. My current pet hate is the handling of removable media like compact flash cards...
Adam