>>The KDE and Gnome >>environments are also an attempt to cover up an extremely bad windowing >>system - aka X-Windows - which is probably the most appalling windowing >>product in existence short of one I'd write myself. It is slow, cumbersome, >>badly supported with device drivers, excruciatingly difficult to set up if >>you are not bulk-standard (depending on whose distribution what bulk >>standard means) and has the performance of a pig with two legs. Until >>X-Windows is replaced with something half decent, IMHO, Linux will always >>bite on the desktop for the average user.
IMHO, KDE in Redhat 8.0, 9.0 is good enough compare to Windows XP, 2000, 95, 98. I use KDE in Redhat 8.0 daily at home on a AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512M RAM with Kylix 3. I don't feel it anything slow compare to work using Windows 2000 professional with exactly same computer specification. It is not difficult to setup, I just use Redhat default installer, everything works perfect. I even use ogle to play dvd movies without problem. I am very happy about Redhat linux/KDE performance. Regards Leigh -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Vowles Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: Fw: [DUG]: octane > > I don't like think I like his remark about Linux on the desktop though. > > The latest KDE or Gnome are much nicer to use than Windows XP with its > > Fisher Price baby toy look and feel. But, er this is configurable. Fisher Price is good for a lot of people as that is exactly the level of competence they are at. The KDE and Gnome environments are also an attempt to cover up an extremely bad windowing system - aka X-Windows - which is probably the most appalling windowing product in existence short of one I'd write myself. It is slow, cumbersome, badly supported with device drivers, excruciatingly difficult to set up if you are not bulk-standard (depending on whose distribution what bulk standard means) and has the performance of a pig with two legs. Until X-Windows is replaced with something half decent, IMHO, Linux will always bite on the desktop for the average user. > I think the main reason people put > > down Linux on the desktop is the security (which is missing from > > Windows), people have a fit just because you need to go to the command > > line and switch to root to install things, unlike Windows where you can > > just browse to the wrong website and have endless crap installed onto > > the system. <sigh> Well, surprisingly this feature isn't limited to Linux. I use Mozilla for browsing and most email reading (Lookout is the standard at Borland, I have little choice in it) - so I don't suffer the problems that are mentioned here and relate specifically to IE. Now on the server side, well - would I use anything else? :-) Richard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
