Re: [opensuse] Am I the only one?

Larry Stotler wrote:
KDE4 was pushed out before it was even really usable. It still has a
lot of holes. So long as KDE3 provides me what I need, I will stay
with it.

Look at it this way, as bad as WinDoZe is, look how many people are
staying with XP and avoiding Vista like the plague. I prefer 2k
myself, because it is easier to setup and uses less resources than XP.
For all it's flaws, XP has become the most used OS ever. And if we
ever want to get people to move away from it, we will need to offer a
compelling reason for them to switch. While we may think that things
like MySpaceIM are useless, these people don't, so should we work to
get it ported? Or Quicktime or AIM, or some other win program. A lot
of us dislike Novell's support of mono, because we think .NET is
useless, but a lot of WinDoZe users don't, so where do we draw the
line?

I use Linux because it's stable, secure, and uses less resources than
Windows. It's gives me more control over my system than Windows does.
And, it gives me real choice. But, I use WinDoZe at work and I am
basically as productiive using it as I am with Linux, so, once again,
it comes down to a compelling reason. I feel I need a compelling
reason to switch to KDE4, which I have yet to find, and WinDoZe users
need a compelling reason to switch to Linux.


FWIW, yesterday, I was a a friend's setting up WiFi for her on her new
computer, which runs Vista. The more I use Vista, the more I hate it.
Some of what I don't care for in KDE 4 also appears to be in Vista. My
friend also does not care for Vista. She finds it irritating. So
anyone who thinks KDE should be moving in that direction, should do some
serious rethinking. Otherwise, we'll wind up with Linux Vista.

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