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IBM scaring the pants out of themIBM scaring the pants out of themPosted May 22, 2004 11:35 UTC (Sat) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)In reply to: IBM scaring the pants out of them by gkhw Parent article: Dreams of Longhorn (News.com) > As per the submenus, I think in Mandrake if I want to change the kde colours, That's not something typical users do. Also Gnome is really simpler and more intuitive than KDE. In Gnome, you change the entire theme and not the colors because just changine the colors will often result in unreadable text somewhere. > The taskbar in windows can be hidden and appear only when required This is an enormous misfeature. (Google for Fitt's Law). It's complicated to compare Linux vs Windows UI but recent UI studies show that they are roughly equivelent for new computer users.
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IBM scaring the pants out of them Posted May 22, 2004 11:37 UTC (Sat) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] Crap... I'm meant to say the studies were between a Gnome based distro and Windows.
IBM scaring the pants out of them Posted May 23, 2004 23:19 UTC (Sun) by gkhw (guest, #11591) [Link] Ok, take printing management.Mandrake: Star / System / Configuration / printing / Cups WWW admin Tools (which is hardly a beginner's UI) Windows: Start / Printing / Name of your printer This may be more to be expected from a beginner?
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