--- feba thatl [email protected] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
--- Arthur Pemberton [email protected] wrote:
Well aside from the fact that they chose Gnome (eww) like Redhat/Fedora. I think Ubuntu is actually a very polished distro.
Well, considering that the other major alternative is KDE, which looks entirely too much like Windows, I think that a sigh of relief could easily replace that "eww".
While I use Ubuntu and am probably one of the five people who actually prefers GNOME, I have to say that KDE looks entirely too much like whatever you want it to look like. If the initial theme bugs you, change it.
Well, the nice part about having GNOME instead of KDE in basic Ubuntu is that, as I mentioned before, Ubuntu's main userbase is non-technical people. Non-technical people are less inclined to change the initial theme of an OS's GUI to something else, since they've probably come over from Another OS where changing the theme wasn't an option.
Which boils down to the very important detail that as more and more people adopt Ubuntu Linux, other people viewing these end users' computers will know from a single glance that they are not running Windows. Default KDE is enough like Windows that a single glance might lead someone to believe the household is still on Windows.
I'm sorry if it seems like I'm exploiting the common man here, but if thats what it takes to dramatically increase Linux usage... ;-)
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