Xander Solis wrote: I think that KDE and Gnome are doing a good job of making people feel at home with the os. In my case I made a test on how my family reacts with making Linux the only OS in our house. I formatted by win98 partitions and made Linux the only OS from December up to know. My Dad, who is a military man(army) liked staroffice very much but said the only draw back of the software was it's sluggishness. Made him try koffice and wordperfect but he feels on using staroffice. I don't argue with him on what to use, the important thing is that he likes to make his documents on Linux. My Siblinngs specially my grade 2 brother really is making records in sokoban, smart kid. The only draw back in the one OS Decision that I made is that I can't surf the Internet because I got an Internal modem that isn't supported by the OS. The happiest person would be me because I get to really be an explorer and tinker with the different languages Linux has by default
Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:39:38PM +0800, Andre M. V. wrote: > > Desktop Environment Maturity. That is relative. > > Others may swear Linux is a better Desktop Env. > > And vice-versa with windows. For me, windows > > Has an edge here. > > > > I think the biggest problem with Linux desktop environments is that they > must so SLAVISHLY copy the Windows desktop environment. Both KDE and > Gnome are guilty of this (and arguably KDE more so), and arguably much > of it was done to ease the migration of refugees from the Evil Empire to > the Free World, but in my opinion both of these parallel projects are > going much too far in this regard. > > I've just been giving GNUstep a little swing, and am reading through > Objective-C and seeing what we can do. It's much much more mature than > it once was when I started using Linux and looking for ways to develop X > applications. At least GNUstep is beginning to look more and more ripe, > and seems to have the potential to produce in the future a desktop that > may be much better than anything Redmond ever made. > > -- > Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 > Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 > http://dido.ph.inter.net/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 > Heute die Welt und Morgen das Sonnensystem! > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to ph-linux-newbie- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Xander Solis APC-CNE23 ________________________________________________________________ This message was delivered to you by Asia Pacific College. Scanning and Virus Filtering is delivered by RAVAntivirus. For more information, please visit our website or e-mail the system administrators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The information in this electronic message is privileged and confidential, intended only for use of the individual or entity named as addressee and recipient. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy, use, disseminate or deliver this message. In such case, you should immediately delete this email and notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information expressed in this message are not given, nor endorsed by and are not the responsibility of APC unless otherwise indicated by an authorized representative of APC independent of this message." _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
