Re: tlug: Success of Windows

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Alan B. Stone wrote:

> You know, I think we would all agree that the only reason there are more
> people running Win95 on the machines, and not running something else is
> advertising.  If Apple had adobted an agressive advertising plan early
> on (and probably released the source code) I don't think they would be
> in the shape they are today.
> 
> The number one problem as I see it, people use Windows at home which is
> fine by me, but don't come to the workplace and tell me that this is the
> best OS for an office environment, because it's not.
> 
> Linux/Unix can and has started to become more and more popular.  As long
> as there are individuals and/or distributors who will provide support
> and quality products (i.e. not RH5.0) people will migrate to it.
> 
> If you want to see a window manager that has the potential to put
> Linux/Unix on the average user's home desktop, seriously take a look at
> KDE.  I'm not saying it's right for persons who like to do the things we
> do, however, with a little more work on the 'user configuration section'
> it really does stand a chance.  Furthermore, it runs on Linux, FreeBSD,
> Solaris, and several other Unix platforms.

KDE is a good idea, but its main achilles heel is the qt library on which
it's based... it doesn't support Japanese, for one thing.. 

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