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Re: The apps, not the enviroment
by DragonXero on Sunday 20/May/2001, @13:28
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I tried out installing Linux on my machine, and with the crappy computer I have, I couldn't get it past 640x480 in Linux. All the drivers on this computer are for Windoze only, so I'm stuck with it.
What I want to say is that there seems to be little real motivation for the common Windows user who has been using Windows all his/her life, and now people want them to use Linux. Sure, some of us realize that free=better, as well as stable, fast (though it did lag on my system, hardware garbage again), powerful and other things. I found it a little difficult to get it running myself, I can just imagine the hell an inexperienced user would have installing even the simplest (I was installing Mandrake) distro. Wait until they have to compile and such. Linux is obviously superiour, but is certainly not for the masses yet, it seems.
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Re: The apps, not the enviroment
by -Andre on Monday 21/May/2001, @01:23
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I tend now to favor using applications which can either be multiplatform, like Netscape, or StarOffice, or at least share their files with multiples applications.
In this extent I would use Konqueror on Windows, for two reasons: 1) I like it bettre 2) I could use it on more than one platform.
It is not irrational that MS understand this, Word files are already usable on Windows, and Apple machines, and maybe more.
It is very possible that eventually they will reconize Linux as a real fact of life, and port IE, MSOffice to Linux. For MS this is the lest of two evils, and they may have to give up their grandiose plans to dominate the all industry, and just make money like every one else.
I am betting on a Linux version of MSOffice.
Because not doing it would be stupid!
IBM learned the hard way that resisting to UNIX was a major mistake.
Andre G-
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Re: The apps, not the enviroment
by -Andre on Monday 21/May/2001, @01:23
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I tend now to favor using applications which can either be multiplatform, like Netscape, or StarOffice, or at least share their files with multiples applications.
In this extent I would use Konqueror on Windows, for two reasons: 1) I like it bettre 2) I could use it on more than one platform.
It is not irrational that MS understand this, Word files are already usable on Windows, and Apple machines, and maybe more.
It is very possible that eventually they will reconize Linux as a real fact of life, and port IE, MSOffice to Linux. For MS this is the lest of two evils, and they may have to give up their grandiose plans to dominate the all industry, and just make money like every one else.
I am betting on a Linux version of MSOffice.
Because not doing it would be stupid!
IBM learned the hard way that resisting to UNIX was a major mistake.
Andre G-
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Re: The apps, not the enviroment
by Michael Goedeker on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @16:38
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Hi Karl,
I would have to disagree withyou on GUI users staying with IE.
Have you tried to reinstall 5.5 or SP6A again after the NT4.0 system crashes? Itīs a bag of ****
The problem with SP6A High Encyrption is there isnīt one! You have to rename a dll before reinsatlling a Service Pack, thats nuts!
This is the kind of functionalitiy and control that KDE will bring back to Admins. It will also ease the transition to Linux as this will be a fact soon.
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Re: The apps, not the enviroment
by James E. LaBarre on Wednesday 27/Jun/2001, @15:45
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> I think there would be little motiviation to use it instead of IE on a Windows machine that has IE built-in
Not if you've installed Win98 using the 98lite utility (which makes MSIE & a number of other "embedded" components uninstallable). Sometimes you need to set up a Windows system for friends or family; sometimes Linux is not a good choice at the time, but you'd like to start moving them towards OSS.
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Enviroment NOT APPS
by !Q! on Wednesday 09/Jan/2002, @15:48
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I would love to see KDE on the win 2k platform because it would give every one and me the ability to run our faverite win 2k games while still have the best GUI.
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Re: Enviroment NOT APPS
by Mark on Friday 21/Jun/2002, @12:20
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I agree! I love KDE's interface, especially the multilpe desktop feature. Such a great idea, I don't know why Micro$oft hasn't implemented this yet. I have to open up 20+ windows when I'm working (I have 23 open right now) and I would be nice to seperate them onto seperate desktops according to their function. Does anyone know of something like this out there for Windows right now?
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Re: Enviroment NOT APPS
by Chris on Saturday 29/Jun/2002, @05:10
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maybe Lindows will make us happy, that's if mS doesn't kill it first!
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Re: Enviroment NOT APPS
by nonUSER on Tuesday 23/Dec/2003, @13:24
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i have an nVidia card... it can setup multiple desktops under Windows
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Re: The apps, not the enviroment
by D@V on Monday 14/Oct/2002, @06:34
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When somebody found it available for windoze please let me know. B.t.w. did somebody checked those crystalyze XP Skinz they are in KDE look, very kewl ;)
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Re: The apps, not the enviroment
by Andrew on Monday 27/Mar/2006, @18:46
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This post was so long ago and still very little has happenned :-(
KDE adds a lot to QT and having it availble for application development under windows would be great. Otherwise WXwidgets and GTK are going to lead the way with progressively more support and simpler developer licensing. GTK apps never give the right feel under windows - which gives users an impression of dubious quality. Perhaps people think "is everything this bad under linux - why would you go there?"
If I develop using the best platform choice for linux (KDE) where can my code go right now? Only to linux users. But if KDE is the development platform of choice even under windows we potentially bring many more apps to linux. This has got to be a good thing.
Do not hold back for political reasons! KDE is the platform (not win32 or linux) Get it being used by the largest number of people
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Re: The apps, not the enviroment
by Nobody on Tuesday 28/Mar/2006, @03:06
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Nobody reads these old forums.
If you are interested in useing kdelibs on win32 see the wiki:
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDElibs+for+win32
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