Window dressings - a maddog story (Was: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros)

[Jon maddog Hall]

rasharpe at earthlink.net said:
>  I prefer KDE for my personal taste over GNOME which seems more like WINDOWS
> and probably the reason RED Hat it to convert Windoze users, KDE on the other
> hand in my opinion, is crisp clean and refreshing.

Once upon a time, in the early days of Red Hat, Red Hat decided to have a contest
for "best desktop".  I was one of the judges.  We created categories for the
desktop, including "most efficient", "most beautiful", etc.

In the end we had hundreds submitted, and we considered each and every one.

The winner was a very nice desktop, and Marc Ewing was going to use it as the
next Red Hat default desktop.  I told him "no", since what Red Hat really wanted
to do was get Windows users over, and Windows users wanted something that
was familiar to them.  Unix users could create any type of desktop they wanted.

So the next Red Hat default desktop was "FVWM95".

The difference between windows users and unix users is that unix users change
their environment to be what they want....because they can and they know how
(or will find out).

md
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