On Saturday 21 June 2008 03:46:53 am Tony Alfrey wrote:
Please consider the following:
Suppose you are a frustrated Vista user and you finally get it in your head to try Linux. You know nothing about KDE 3/4, beta/alpha, KDE/Gnome/X/whatever window manager, you just know you bought this box of SuSE software down at Fry's and you're gonna install the thing. You select what appears to be the default installation (remember, you don't know what a KDE is). Will you be happy with the end result?
Think again Tony. You said "You know nothing about KDE 3/4, beta/alpha, KDE/Gnome/X/whatever". All discussions about new users and KDE4 being before KDE3 ignore simple fact that first in the list is GNOME. If you have habit to assume that second choice is better then first when you have no idea what each means, I don't. I'm used to vendors that put their forerunner first, and then alternatives. At best I will ask Google, and then I will learn what is GNOME and KDE, see zillion warnings that KDE4 is not ready for prime time, and then conclude: - KDE3 is lower version, - it is put in third position by vendor, who knows their products so I'll stick with GNOME. It is in the first place in the list and if I don't know what is good, vendor knows. End of story. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org