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Re: My two cents ... again and again
by jos poortvliet on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @06:44

Do you know why people still prefer to *pay* for buggy, virus prone, registry breakage prone Windows? Because Windows offer extremely *polished* desktop experience. Once set up properly Windows doesn't tend to crash here and here. Windows offers *keyboard only* driven GUI (you can virtually do anything without using a mouse) - the thing which is still *not* possible in *any* Linux DE.

Polished? Windows is anything but polished... Start ms word doc, minimize it, open a second word doc, the other one is maximized - totally crazy. Or try alt-tab - most apps open a 'hidden' extra window, making alt-tab incredibly annoying. Need more examples? Open a bunch of webpages so the taskbar starts to add all windows into 1 button. Now enlarge the tab bar - no matter how much room there is, it won't put em back individually. And have you ever heard of focus stealing prevention? Redmond clearly hasn't (Yeah, it's Lubos, our KWin maintainer who invented it some years ago). And I can go on and on... Linux does ALL of these things perfectly, has done so for years.

And you complain about keyboard driven gui - most Windows apps can't change shortcuts, entirely unlike KDE - where you can always change all shortcuts. We're lightyears ahead in that area...

If there is ONE desktop which is extremely unpolished, it's MS Windows. By far.

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