On Saturday 06 May 2006 07:05 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Towards that end - I'd say KDE, GNOME and SUSE have all done a great job in attempting to reach the goal. I think we all have benefited by the "competition" between the major desktops in the world, KDE, Macintosh, Gnome and - to some extent - Windows.
There really isn't anything wrong with Windows (XP) except the tight control M/S has over it, and its desire to make bunches of money. Anyone who uses it would have to admit that it does the job very well, and it runs most routines much faster than SuSE.
FWIW, I support Windows users for a living. It's amazing the garbage they have to put up with, that simply doesn't occur with other operating systems. Anyone who has hands on experience with other operating systems, would never claim that Windows compares favourably with the others. It is simply crap, top to bottom. If you think it's so good, try supporting it for a while and then compare it with your experiences with Linux or OS/2 or...