Re: [ossig] Linux too much like Windows :)

["Hoh, Sunny" <Sunny.Hoh@getronics.com>]

I have tried in version 9.0 mandrake have still kept to the standard
linux interface. I have yet to see any adopt Bluecurve. 

It's just that mandrake has clean up and smplifyed alot of the
configuration stuff like samba and printer setup. So for a windows user 
moving to linux do get shell shock.

Cos the point here is that we all want more and more people to use linux

If you look at the walmart site they are selling white bos bundling with
lycrois, as you mention it is very much windows like. BUT it is still a
version of caldera undernearth !! 





> I personally haven't tried Mandrake 9, but if Mandrake keeps on 
> "copying" RedHat, they'd also like to follow on with BlueCurve and it 
> will become more "Windows" like. RedHat is still Linux like, take no 
> mistake in my mentioning that the GUI by default looked Windows-ish.
> 
> Lycoris on the other hand, now that is very Windows like. Its scarily 
> similar, even with a registry, etc... At least most of RedHat is 
> still rooted with the other Linux'es, with some minor changes here 
> and there.
> 
> Window managers are always there, and the choice with OSS stuff means 
> that users always have a choice and are never locked into one thing. 
> Thats what the great fight is about now - choice. Go an argue that 
> Windows (2000/XP) is not as stable as your run-off-the-mill Linux 
> install, and I would think it was a lie. Its the choice of apps 
> available on Linux, the variety, the free-ness (end-users don't care, 
> they buy rm5 copies anyways). But this is another argument 
> altogether, not related to the topic.
>  
> > 	Linux is about choice, I am sure Redhat et al try to imitate windows

> > and OS X to ease the switching experience. But quite frankly, as a 
> > seasoned user, you don't really have to use it if you don't want to.
> 
> Yup. The switchdesk application will help you change Window managers.
> --
> Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
> http://www.bytebot.net/
> 
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