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One Quick Question about GNU/Linux and its Users

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Calum:

quote:Originally posted by flap:
[QB]Also, window managers that look like Windows are definitely in the minority. KDE and GNOME are specifically designed to act like the windows interface, for the reason I've given, but other WMs like Enlightenment, Window Maker, Blackbox etc. are very different.
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also those use a fraction of the CPU that mswindows uses.

plus let me make it quite clear that mswindows' interface looks and feels like dumbass windows no matter what you do to it, but KDE and GNOME can both be customised EASILY (many easy customisations in KDE and GNOME simply cannot be done in windows, or are difficult and risky) to look and feel like RiscOS, MacOS, et cetera. I use windowmaker and my girlfriend uses kde. she has one toolar along the top and a lot of desktop icons, basically it's like MacOS 7 or 8 but looks a lot nicer, and she has a nice handy runbox on the toolbar too (try getting one of those in windows, even then it'd only do dumbass DOS commands, imagine if they had a GUI box that said "bad command or filename <OK>" that popped up every time you tried to use your runbox!) and my windowmaker is, well, not windows, and is at least as useful and intuitive. have a look: http://calumnine.cjb.net/wmaker2003.jpg

so as with everything in linux, it's choice. if you don't like it, change it, or change to something else you do like. you don't get that choice in windows full stop, unless it's to change to linux (or mac, freebsd et cetera et cetera)

Calum:
Aaaaaaaand, for those of us who have KDE installed but who use windowmaker, can i still use superkaramba?

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