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  1. Re:KDE? by poofyhairguy82 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Ubuntu Preps Next Release
    So, how easy is it to run Ubuntu with KDE instead of Gnome?

    Basically it works great. And Hoary will have KDE 3.3.

    Here my (wordy) opinion of using the universe KDE.

  2. Re:finding files!-Beagle by noda132 · · Score: 1 · on Gnome 2.10 Sneak Peek

    we, users, get functionality, which idea is best is proven by real world, not by marketing crap

    No, that's not really true. Storage could have been great, but had only one person working on it. For free. And thus not all that much. As for Beagle: look through its AUTHORS file and you'll see an awful lot of @ximian.org's and @novell.com's. These guys are getting paid to hack.

    In this instance, the end result seems to be good. In fact, there actually is a pretty nice "look how cool open-source is" story. Before Beagle, there was Dashboard (an always-open window which is supposed to give you links based on what you're doing -- e.g., who you're talking to in Gaim). Dashboard simply never took off. Then somebody came up with the idea of turning it into a search tool.

    As an Epiphany fan, though, I simply can't agree with that comment about open-source not being affected by "marketing crap". Ubuntu's choice of Firefox as default browser was because of its brand name recognition. (Yes, I can back that up.)

    Anyway, my point is: "open source" isn't really a panacea for great software. Free Software isn't free from the real world. The open source world isn't perfect; it's just better than the proprietary one.