A quote from a Mandriva Club article "To GUI or Not to GUI, That is ... Illogical, Captain ..."
"Hardly a day seems to go by when I don't encounter some pointless troll ranting on about why KDE users should switch to GNOME, why all of the available Linux GUIs are crap for Windoze-addicted zombies who need to become Real Men (read: "Real Geeks") and start using the command line for everything they do, and so on. As it happens, this all coincides with my own participation in a very hard online English teaching (TESOL) course. Part of this involves a look at different aspects of the psychology of learners and one particular aspect, which I had encountered previously and had not until now explored in any depth, was the different types of learner. "I'll explain. Some time ago, the author Howard Gardner published a list of learner types subsumed under his theory of "Multiple Intelligences", according to which people would learn best in an environment which was arranged to support their particular style of learning. Later, in Australia, Murray Loom produced a list of attributes which might be found in these people, and it makes interesting reading: ... " Read more at: http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/chromium/PsychologicalGUIPreferences
