Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:45:11 05/27/02
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On May 27, 2002 at 03:35:15, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On May 26, 2002 at 19:41:30, Christophe Theron wrote: > >[snip] > >>Yes and in the case of Linux it can be achieved by making the GUI as close as >>possible to Windows. KDE is doing approximately that, but they should stick >>even more to the "Windows-like" idea. >> >>But it's not enough and I believe that even some more technical aspects should >>be made more Windows-like. It would attract people like me, and we are many. >>And we are opinion leader, somehow. At least to some modest extend. > >While I agree that making Linux Windows-like in some ways is a good (the only?) >way to attract more users, please keep in mind that when a potential user is not >ready to sacrifice something (it's more exchanging some things with other/more >things, but she won't realize that until later) she will never really switch. > >I'm sure that Linux (or at least certain distros) will become more >'Windows-like', but as long as this the main criterion of people, they will not >switch to another OS. Afterall Windows is the OS which comes closest to >Windows.. If you really like windows, just pick the right X-window manager and theme, and you can get a "start" button and the whole 9 yards. Turn off case sensitivity, etc. Of course you will _never_ force unix to end all executable files with .exe, but you can easily put spaces in filenames if you have such a penchant. > >The Apple OS never tried to look like / behave like Windows. Yeah, they don't >have that much market share, but at least "they're different", which also >attracts people. (hint: Steve Jobs is quite happy with his market share, he's >not really trying to get 50% or something, believe me ;) And I'm positive that >they will still exist in 5 years - of course with similar market share. *smiles* > >If Linux would look/behave exactly like Windows, many people would probably also >think "Gah, Linux is almost like Windows, I can as well use Windows itself!" > > >[big snip] > >>Finally I have the universal problem to be able to use Word and Excel >>documents. It would be possible to convert all my existing documents one by >>one to the Koffice applications, maybe, but I find these applications to be >>in an early state of developpement at that time. And naturally I would have >>a problem every time someone sends me an MSOffice document by email. > >I'm using the suice from OpenOffice.org and it works quite nice. I can read the >Word documents I get pretty well. One of my co-workers went back to using M$ >Office because one table in a document looked different than under Word2000... >See what I mean? > >Note: I've only used the Writer app. (Word like) No experience in the rest of >the suice. > > >Sargon
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