Re: Selling Linux to Windows Users

Dotan Cohen wrote:

2008/12/9 Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Mouse buttons? OK, I admit I've just started using a 5-button mouse
with two dead buttons, but I'll be amazed if I can't actually make
them do something.

You can _make_ them work. Can my 74 year old mother in law?

Can your 74 year old MIL actually use the extra buttons now? I have this 5-button mouse because my wife couldn't stop it from doing awful things on Windows - the buttons were set to do SOMETHING by default, but it was not obvious _what_.

So unless there's some standard for what the extra buttons should do,
they're just as useful being initially unmapped as mapped.

And those who need those freedoms can use their FOSS programs on
Windows. What freedom-giving Linux software does not run on
Windows?

KDE?

http://windows.kde.org/

The last time I looked, this was not actually working. Maybe it is now.
That's why I made it a question.

In any case, KDE is a desktop environment, not an application that
_does_ anything.

Not a valid argument. It's an application just like anything else, and
if it runs on Windows, it's only recent.

The individual components such as Kate, Kontact, and
Amarok are distinct applications and they can be run on Windows.

Not unless KDE runs on Windows... Kate & Kontact still require the whole kde base. Amarok only needs kdelibs.
--
derek


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