Rajko M. wrote:
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.
No, *you* think again. The objective IMHO is to provide an alternative to Windoze that does not require 10 years of *nix experience. <snip>
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.
And it may, indeed, be the "end of story" at that point. Will the new SuSE user who is testing out an alternative from Vista then be happy with the results following the scenario which you describe? In all fairness, I must say that I've not yet tried 11.0 and/or KDE4. But if many of you experts are having reservations, I will certainly be cautious until I hear that it "is soup", as we say. And I must also say that, while the style of criticism of some may be out of line, I'm also puzzled by what seems to be a defensive reaction of some who are apparently closely involved with the actual product development, but who are reluctant to take product feedback seriously. This is not FUD being delivered by some M$ troll, this is serious feedback delivered by serious linux users. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org