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Windows XP Edges Out KDE in Usability Test
AstroDrabb writes "Linux, once viewed as an operating system that only computer geeks could appreciate, is today a much more user-friendly software that companies, public administrations and consumers can master almost as easily as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP."
does it have a Start button?
Unix is a very user friendly Operating System. Any genius can use it.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I really don't see KDE or any other linux desktop software beating Windows or MacOS in usabilities tests anytime soon. KDE and GNOME keep playing catchup to windows instead of leading the way.
Then you obviously don't know the trick to winning this kind of game. The trick is to stop implementing new features at the exact moment that the "leader" commits to becoming an unusably bloated, worthless feature ladden pile of... Oh my gosh! Stop! Stop!
-- MarkusQ
KDE could include spikes that stick out of the computer and pierce my skull every five minutes,
You could probably rig something up by hacking xscreensaver to run a usb link to one of those battle-bot kits off e-bay.
Just a thought.
-- MarkusQ
How can you multitask when you can only have one desktop.
Alt+Tab?
You get pretty quick at it if you need to multitask in Windows, and I personally find it easier to use than multiple window setups... now if only I could get my second flatpanel working on dual monitor... mmmmm.
Unix/Linux is VERY user friendly. It's just picky about who it conciders a friend :)
Space for rent, inquire within
Finally, the one case where I'm glad drivers exist for Windows but not for Linux!!!
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
A scientific comparison of Apples and Oranges
I'd be more interested in seeing a study in which half the group tried it on GNU/Linux,KDE first then on Windows, and the other half, vice versa. I've never heard from someone who has never used either operating system having new experiences with both of them.
I think that they should find a tribe of african bushmen who have never used computers, and test it out on them. While these bushmen are familiar with IBM databases (remember the ad with the clicking bushman?), they seem to have no familiarity with desktop computers, sort of like the mainframe guys most of us keep in the back room.
I expect that the bushmen (not buschmen -- those can be found in Appalachia watching NASCAR) will decide to worship the superior desktop environment, and thus, anthropologists and geeks alike will finally know which is the better desktop environment -- KDE or XP. Mac users, as usual, will be left out.
GF.
Lots of petrified grits
where they get test subjects that used neither XP nor linux/KDE...
;)
mac users? i can't believe that! they'd never be pleased with the appearance of XP
The tests found from 26.6.? 16.7.2003 in Berlin instead of.
... in ..." so it's "findet von .... in berlin statt". but when written in isolation, and translated out of context, "findet" means "finds" and "statt" means "instead of".
now thats a classic... i love this. (german speaking mods will agree and mod this post funny)
for all those who don't speak german:
the sentence should say "the tests took place in berlin from 6/26 to 7/16 2003 in berlin". "to take place" is "stattfinden" in german, but the verb is split because of the "from
(non-german-speaking moderators will have learned something and mot this as informative)
Free as in mason.
So what would Apple be?
When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost, you mourn for yourself. - Harpo Marx
You could probably rig something up by hacking xscreensaver to run a usb link to one of those battle-bot kits off e-bay.
It's much easier to just install Clippy get the same effect.
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