On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 02:39, 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
That's almost impossible to answer... each DE has its strengths and weaknesses in terms of how big/small the step is from Windows.... it's also VERY subjective. You can set up either DE to be remarkably like Windows 7 and XP... I've seen some very impressive XP skins for Gnome... where you have to really look to see it's not XP... and KDE4 is somewhat similar to Win7 (especially KDE4.5)... but also far enough away to be "new" to a new user. Ultimately both are easy enough for a new user to use that you can pick whichever one you, as the primary support person, are comfortable with. In my case, I show both to people, and then let them choose. Most coming from Windows have picked KDE4... it feels closer to what they came from. Since they aren't advanced users they rarely bump into the bugs and annoyances that were yatter on about on the mailing list here. Overall that's been a fairly successful approach that results in reasonably happy users. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org