On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:47:57 +0900, Pascal Goguey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > >Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need
> > >to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X?
> >
> > For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good
> > thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even
> > open source with their next OS is anything but opportunism born out of dire
> > need. As for their OS - look at Linus T's comments about it in his book.
>
> Id depends on what you want. For most of the people of this list
> (including me), Mandraje provides everything for the daily use.
> As for my frustrations:
> - No consistent cut & paste;
This can be frustrating if you use different toolkits. The
select-and-middle-click method works in most places, though.
> - No way to reassign the shortcuts consistently to mimick Mac's
> behaviour. At least not in KDE, and the changes don't apply consistently
> everywhere.
Have you looked for alternatives? If KDE doesn't suit your needs, then try
something else. Have you looked at GNOME and/or WindowMaker? KDE isn't the whole
world, you know.
> - Fonts / encoding problems as soon as you don't use an english
> platform. I am still unable, for instance, to send a message that contains
> French AND Japanese in the same page. Either the accents or the
> kanjis are unsuported.
Internationalisation suport in GNU/Linux is supposed to be very good. Again,
have you tried different apps to see if one suited your needs? I hear that Pango
(the GNOME2 internationalisation library, used by GNOME2 apps) handles this sort
of thing quite well. Also, make sure you're using Unicode fonts.
> We (on this list) can cope with this, but as for a person coming from
> MacOSX world where the 3 points above work perfectly, I guess it is
> not easy and for them, Mac is still the only solution that works out of
> the box, without any other config.
That's true. I'm sure free software will get there; it'll just take some time :)
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