Duaine Hechler said the following on 08/01/2010 08:39 PM:
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
I'm not sure it matters. I've friends and clients that I see running everything from W98 to W7 - Desktop - and some clients with various server releases where stuff like networking is quite different. I've seen the vast differences between releases of MS-Office. The difference between them all and between any of them an either Gnome or KDE4 isn't so great as to confound a reasonably intelligent person. There seem to be a lot of people who have moved from Windows to the MAC with no problems, and those seem more widely separated than XP or later and Gnome or KDE. The real world is that we use applications, not the operating system. The difference between Outlook and any of Thunderbird, KMail and Evolution will matter more. Or perhaps your BiL uses Thunderbird so it doesn't matter what platform its on. The same logic goes for MS-Office and OpenOffice. I use the former at client sites and the latter at home and on my laptop. The difference never trips me up. -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org