Ubuntu

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:49 PM, feba thatl <febaen at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  Honestly, for a linux newbie, I'd avoid comparisons to other software.
>  >  It's *like* it, sure, but it *isn't* it, and that needs to be clear.
>  >  They shouldn't expect it to be a clone of it, that will work the same
>  >  way. They should expect it to be an entirely new thing, that will take
>  >  a little bit of getting used to. Somewhat in the same way you wouldn't
>  >  tell someone that driving an SUV is like driving a moving van, but
>  >  they both use the same basic skills.
>
>  I put a Ubuntu Athlon XP system in a friends house as an upgrade from
>  their old K6 Win98 POS.  I didn't tell them anything much about it
>  except that "it's not Windows and doesn't run Windows stuff.  That
>  includes viruses and crap."  I pretty much only showed them how to
>  login (one for each adult in the house), that FireFox was how to get
>  on the web, and where Add/Remove Programs was and what it did.  It's
>  been many months and the only problem I've heard about was a problem
>  playing CDs. Turns out they were fairly well scratched, so it wasn't a
>  Linux/UI problem.  I know they use XP systems at work and they never
>  questioned me about how to do something "like on Windows".  They
>  aren't really computer power users or even particularly savvy but
>  Gnome was straight forward enough that they didn't have any big
>  transition issues because I told them up front that it was going to be
>  different.  For a new user stuff like popup tooltips are invaluable.
>  Anyway, I don't think they would have got along so well if it had been
>  KDE and setup to be like Windows.  They would likely have been trying
>  to find stuff as under Windows because there wouldn't have been a
>  significant visual difference between them.


Why would you set KDE up like Windows ?


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