The fall of KDE?

[alan c]

Billie Walsh wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> On 11/18/2008 alan c wrote:
>>  I would like to avoid any comparison of linux with vista.
>>  Mistakes by the party of the second part do not justify less mistakes
>>  by the party of the first part.......
>>  :-)
> 
> In some ways I'm not so sure that KDE 4.x and Vista comparisons can be 
> completely avoided. This summer I bought a new, off the shelf, laptop 
> that was of course pre-loaded with Vista.  [ First thing I did was dual 
> boot it with 8.04 *<]:oD  ]  To the eye KDE 4.x "looks" like someone is 
> trying to copy Vista. Loads of eye candy.

Maybe true. And very clever stuff, impressive.

I did come across one linux newbie who was trying Kubuntu 8.10 i 
isolation, and although he expressed it as a learning experience he 
did not yet fully understand I got the clear impression that he 
thought it competed well with vista. So Kubuntu - if it had fewer 
rough edges  - would probably win hands down. The apparent target 
market for that segment  then would be a perfectly valid one - ex 
Vista users. The trick will have to be that existing users and less 
demanding users still can find it a desirable must have and not go 
running away.

If only I had the choice - as I have with compiz in ubuntu and the 
wonderful spinning cube - to easily turn it off and do other things!
-- 
alan cocks
Ubuntu user #10391
Linux user #360648