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Re: KDE on Windows?
by Björn Svensson on Friday 18/May/2001, @00:26

I think KDE should avoid windows, otherwise we'll just end up with a Mozilla-like "port to all platform"-hell... Spare us!

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Re: KDE on Windows?
by mg on Friday 18/May/2001, @14:37

Well, let them port.

But there should be no windows compatibility overhead in kde itself in future. Not go back to stone age.

Martin

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Almost useless
by Justin on Friday 18/May/2001, @14:45

Seriously. KDE should never focus on Windows, however it isn't quite so much of a problem if it is handled by someone else without a fork (similar to the Konq/Embedded project).

Still, who would use this? When people talk about OS strengths, it's usually: Windows has applications, Unix is stable. Unix applications on Windows then seems silly. Really, the true problem with Windows is not its GUI. It's the crap underneath. KDE running on Windows will be no more stable since it's running on top of the same crap.

And most users would not be interested in running a completely different desktop on Windows (anyone remember Litestep?). If you're going to do that, you might as well run Linux anyway.

I think a project like this would only help in very niche situations. I can remember times when I've been stuck at a Windows box and I wished I had Konqueror. Or perhaps Licq. But really, they weren't *that* necessary. Light is nice, but if I'm only using this computer for an hour then I'll deal with the bloat.

Maybe this is one of those "I'm bored, let's do something" projects.

-Justin

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Re: Almost useless
by Your_average_MS_user on Tuesday 27/Apr/2004, @10:31

Hi you wonderful people!

Sorry if I seem a bit manic, but I've just had my first Linux experience, even if oddly enough, I'm back at XP at the moment posting through Opera.

What I wanted to say regarding KDE on Windows, the only people you'll reach with that (in regards to the Windows masses), are the experimental types. However, those have dual boot anyway. The average MS user is much too scared to use anything Linux, the problem here is psychological. Mental block.

People who do not consider themselves tekkies (Hello!;-) are scared shitless of Linux because they *think* that if they make any mistake, it will create a black hole and swallow the solar system. It really doesn't matter even how smoothly KDE would run on Windows, your average tekkiot would not install it simply because of the fear it would "do something" which was irreversible.

So unless there was a specific need by some prof, I doubt most dozers would even try it because it's all a bit irrational really, myself included. For several years I moved *very slowly* towards the fence, intimidated as hell, to get a whiff of Linux air and wanted to wait until 'I bought the next computer' so I 'can mess up the old one' with Linux. Like I said, irrational.

Even dual boot was a threatning concept to me, the sheer thought brought on fantasies about penguins eating their way crisscross through partitions while grinning evily.

Then, I found out about the Live CD thingy and I must say the concept is just brilliant. Pop in a CD, play with Linux, take out the CD, restart and you're "back to normal". Only that for me, normal suddenly didn't feel quite normal anymore. I'm so impressed. Sure, KDE still "ported Linux to me", but under Linux. While I'm willing to learn, there is just no way I would have been interested in any Unix based system without practical GUI. I think command prompts are scary. This might change with time and who knows where the road will lead, but I'm pretty confident that this Windows box here was the last one I bought. I actually start feeling tricked that most PC's are sold with Windows preslapped, if I had had (had had?) a choice when I bought my PC's with the preinstalled Linux being considerably cheaper, of course I would have opted for Linux. Who dosen't like to save a couple of bucks?

So anyway, sorry for the long post, but it was the 'supersave' 'totally reversible' LiveCD which did it for me (first SLAX then Knoppix).

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