Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
>
> I read an interview with an airforce sysadmin where he
> was asked about linux and other free OS's. He replied
> that they use lilnux for many of their servers (in
> some cases against the wishes of their superiors) and
> windows for desktop machines. His arguement was that
> they have to have a standardized interface on as many
> machines as they can. This is so Joe Blow can be
> transfered from miami to germany, go into his office
> and do his work without retraining. He also mentioned
> that the majority of users are immediately familiar
> with a windows interface while the average user would
> be lost on a gnome/windowmaker/kde desktop.
>
> Dacia
I disagree with him on that last point. I came from an Atari/Amiga
heritage, with (forced) use of Windows NT machines at work. I had
never owned a machine with anything other than Motorola chips until
I built my AMD/Linux box a few months ago. I used MiNT (a Unix/Linux
variant) on my Atari, but the GUI was not KDE at all. (TOS on the
Atari is the absolute easiest GUI to use. Period.) I felt right at
home with KDE from the first moment. I hated NT from the moment I
first used it-a feeling which has not changed to this day... ;-)
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