On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 02:55, Prem Vilas Fortran Rara wrote: > Most people with their looks seem to ask: what's the difference > anyway? XP looks smooth, KDE or GNOME looks so scattered, very > disoriented (microcosm of the Linux desktop blueprint). Don't mention > the fonts and the colors--they are so rough, most people don't like > KDE (that's a fact).
I'd rather call it an opinion rather than a fact:D Win32 also suffers from a similar, though lesser degree of scattering (how about programs registering their menus anywhere in the programs panel - talk about consistency and orientation indeed). > Personally, I hate galaxy. So what's the > difference anyway between the blue screens and the GUI hangs? > There are times wherein X might hang but you can still kill the wayward process via a remote connection. Can't do that on Win32, as the graphics subroutines are directly bolted into the kernel, while X is a userland process. It's been a long time though since I've seen a BSOD, although I often see XP's "default" GUI theme leak memory till the system becomes unusable (which is why I switch them back to the less-sightly theme when I was still a sysad). Nonetheless, both are show-stoppers in their own right. --
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