David, That was pretty much my gut feeling too. By default, does Gnome have the plain desktop like KDE 3 (in other words, not in a folder on the desktop like KDE 4) Duaine David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/01/2010 07:39 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
Since a came from a Windows environment, I picked KDE 3 for coming closest.
What comes closest now (XP or win7) - KDE 4 or Gnome ?
I want to, also, upgrade my brother-in-law who used to be on XP - he's now on KDE 3
Thanks, Duaine
Duaine,
(My $.02 from someone in the document business - other will have their own opinions that will no-doubt differ)
Stay with kde3 in 11.3 or go with gnome. kde4, while getting better, is still way to fluid for a serious daily driver. If he/she is coming from windows to linux, set up gnome, it is has come along way in 2.3.x and while it is undergoing serious development as well, the direction it is headed is a know quantity.
I can't comment on win7, still haven't seen a need for it on the win side of the house. Neither it or Vista offer anything material that can't be done in XP and XP is nearly static at this point (a known quantity). I'd never advocate a windows install for the person, unless he/she has critical document, spreadsheet, presentation requirements. OpenOffice is getting very close to being acceptable in its 3.x versions, but I still have way too many Word documents that open up all F'ed up in OO to be able to rely on it as an exclusive solution for my document needs.
(nothing like pulling up an old word document in OO at 3:15 that must be modified and filed by 5:00 for a client and finding all the text has magically switch to strike-through fonts on the latest OO.... to be without a copy of Windows and Word handy....)
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