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Liked Windows more??Liked Windows more??Posted Aug 5, 2003 14:46 UTC (Tue) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659)Parent article: Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability (ComputerWorld) If this was about the look of the desktop, I agree that XP looks a bit nicer than the default GNOME/KDE desktops. But for years the variety of pixmap themes for both have been enormously better than Windows old or new! Perhaps it's time to make a pixmap theme the default, to put the "best foot" of the free desktops forward, and let those with old hardware manually switch? (Even so, GNOME 1.4/pixmap is quite fast on my 160 MHz PPC 603e -- even faster than XP on my wife's 2 GHz P4! :-)
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Liked Windows more?? Posted Aug 5, 2003 15:10 UTC (Tue) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] Perhaps it's time to make a pixmap theme the default, to put the "best foot" of the free desktops forward, and let those with old hardware manually switch?There's very little concensus on what really is the "best" desktop theme. If you look at the rankings on the freshmeat themes page, the "aqua" themes do quite well as a group, but it's not hard to find a significant number of people that just hate that look. I personally think that Windows XP is not all that great: the titlebar is to big, the borders are to small, and the whole thing is just to blue. I'm currently writing a window manager, and one of my goals is to be fair and provide a default theme that everyone hates. ;-)
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