Moin Will! Will Stephenson schrieb am Mittwoch, den 28. Juli 2010:
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 23:40:33 R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
Additionally, Ubuntu really stresses a GNOME-centric desktop, which means one of openSUSE's core strength's (a great KDE setup) is moot.
Do I read that correctly as "one of our core strengths is irrelevant and to compete with Ubuntu, one would have to use the same desktop"?
I can't believe that attempting to imitate a larger and better marketed competitor which directly invests more in desktop engineering could be a successful strategy. You can compete using a poorer product with a lower price, which is moot for us, or by out-marketing the competitor, which is unrealistic. Or you can compete with a recognisably different and better product.
That's not entirely the point I was making, the point I was trying to make is that it's harder to sell somebody on something so different, even if it is better (the classic "But I know how to use Windows" argument). I don't want to mire the discussoin on this point, I just think it's harder for an end-user to make a judgement call on "which is better" when comparing openSUSE KDE to Ubuntu (GNOME). Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance -------------------------------------- GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero