What are you talking about ?

Posted Oct 26, 2007 17:05 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: It's just true, that's all... by drag
Parent article: New Desktop Face-Off: Gnome 2.20 vs KDE 3.5 (O'ReillyNet)

Which am I talking about? Windows or Gnome or KDE?

Who knows ? To me it looks like you are just wasting valuable screen estate. When you do comparisions between BMW, Ford and Toyota you don't start this comparision with "has wheels and uses internal combustion engine" - that's there by default. You are tracking different things. Thus your list is pretty much useless when Windows vs KDE vs GNOME discussion happens...

What are you talking about ?

Posted Oct 26, 2007 17:22 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

No my list is there to help people understand how pointless and futile it is to base a
discussion of KDE vs Gnome on how they are different from Windows.

The point is that they all pretty much IDENTICAL and it's very obvious that both KDE's and
Gnome's UI are heavily based on the Win9x GUI interface.

If you want to get into details about why you like one vs another that's one thing, but to
have a contest to see who is most different from Windows is just insane.

Do you mean the cars are all identical as well ?

Posted Oct 26, 2007 17:57 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

You can produce huge list of things identical for BMW, Ford and Toyota - they all are derivatives of "Ford T" to some degree. All "extravagant and experimental" models are history.

Yet people are still discussing them and have preferences. Why is it Ok for cars and it's not Ok for graphic desktops ?

If you want to get into details about why you like one vs another that's one thing, but to have a contest to see who is most different from Windows is just insane.

No. It's like answer to "simple" question: "I don't have BMW dealers here - what should I choose: Ford or Toyota?". People who want to switch to Linux (to avoid virus attacks or to stop paying Microsoft tax or some other reason) are usually searching for the solution which makes smallest disruption in their life (switch to Linux is hard enough without problems with GUI: think about "\" vs "/" and "C:" vs "/usr") - why do you think it's pointless ?

If you'll recall that most people out there are interested in such a question right now - I can not see how can you say it's pointless.