When you ask a question, comparing to Windows

[Anne Wilson-5]

Quite often a newbie asks if KDE has something similar to what they use in
Windows.  There's one problem with that.  Many of us don't use Windows at all.  
I have never seen Vista in action, so haven't a clue what it looks like.  
That's not to say that we can't answer the question, but we do need more help.

If you are asking about an application equivalence, tell us a bit about what
the application does (unless it's a *very* well known one that has been around
for years.

If you are asking about a display feature, either describe it thoroughly, or
even better, go to imagebin.org or imageshack.us and paste a screenshot.

The better we understand your needs, the easier it is to answer.

Anne
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[david-602]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> Quite often a newbie asks if KDE has something similar to what they use in
> Windows.

Sorry, no newbie to either KDE or Windows.

> There's one problem with that.  Many of us don't use Windows at all.  
> I have never seen Vista in action, so haven't a clue what it looks like.

That's OK. I've only seen Vista in action a couple of times myself. And
we have no Windows machines around here!

> That's not to say that we can't answer the question, but we do need more help.
>
> If you are asking about an application equivalence, tell us a bit about what
> the application does (unless it's a *very* well known one that has been around
> for years.
>
> If you are asking about a display feature, either describe it thoroughly,

Which I think I did, and got some useful answers (useful if you use KDE4).

> or even better, go to imagebin.org or imageshack.us and paste a screenshot.

That would be useful IF the Windows Vista machine in question wasn't
3000 miles away from me in the hands of elderly, non-technical people
who are barely able to handle reading and sending AOL mail ...

> The better we understand your needs, the easier it is to answer.

True.

But in my years of hanging out on Linux email lists, I've frequently
heard people on Linux lists proclaiming how much better KDE/GNOME/Linux
is than Windows and/or Mac OS X - yet have never used either. I figured
there were some folk here knowledgeable enough of know what I was
talking about - and there were.

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[Anne Wilson-5]

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 09:38:01 david wrote:
> Sorry, no newbie to either KDE or Windows.
>
My remarks were not aimed just at you - it's just that your message reminded
me that I'd intended writing that for quite a while :-)  It's easy to forget
that not everyone is familiar with the same things as you are, and it's
something that we are all guilty of at times. :-D

Anne
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[Dr. Edgar Alwers]

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 10:38:01 david wrote:

> But in my years of hanging out on Linux email lists, I've frequently
> heard people on Linux lists proclaiming how much better KDE/GNOME/Linux
> is than Windows and/or Mac OS X - yet have never used either. I figured
> there were some folk here knowledgeable enough of know what I was
> talking about - and there were.

Glad to read, that you find qualified people and answers. I started working
many years ago with the IBM PC under DOS, then under Windows 3.5,Windows 2000,
XP and so on. I changed over, years ago, to Linux. I had a lot of reasons for
doing so. However, the answer to the question if Linux is much better then
Windows/Mac or not, remains a very subjective one.
I would say, we all cannot be knowledgeable enough. What Anne suggests, to
describe the problem in the best possible form, remains always true. You did
agree.
Edgar
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