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Translated KDE/Linux Usability Report Available

Posted by michael on from the lessons-to-learn dept.

WHudson writes "Relevantive AG, a German consulting firm who recently completed a study on Linux usability, posted their results in English translation today. Bottom line: Linux nearly as easy to use as Windows XP, but the wording of system and program messages could use some more clarity."

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  1. Re:Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This isn't flamebait. If he replaced the word KDE with Windows it would have been modded to +5 informative. What he said was totally true, to the point, and informative.

  2. My experience by Marwood · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Im an IT Technician, and Im certainly not Microshaft biggot, but my experiences of Linux have only been difficult to say the least.

    Flame me if you will and bring out the troll beating sticks, but I would love to use Linux, I love the free software and open source ethos, hell, apart from Windows XP itself, all of my software is freeware/open source/whatever (Mozilla, OpenOffice, etc. etc.) but I have tried, and failed.

    I want an OS that works, out of the box, with MY system. Windows does this for me. Linux (so far as I have tried) does not.

    Suse, RedHat, Debian, Slackware, FreeBSD, Gnoppix??? Which one, and why should I use it? Ive seen enough flame wars out there to simply confuse me for life.

    KDE or Gnome? I dont know?! Bluecurve? What the hell?

    I tried RedHat on a recommendation. After installation, did it work with my ADSL modem? No. Did Windows XP work with it, yes. And at the moment, its little things like that that make the choice clear cut for me.

    Ok, Im not going to go on and make myself look like a troll. As Ive said, Id love to use Linux, but Im all for an easy life, and my computer is a tool that I use to get my work done, and as such I want to switch it on and it just plain work. Currently only Windows is doing this for me.

  3. Wow... trolls to the left... trolls to the right.. by advocate_one · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Into the valley of trolls rode the 600...


    So many trolls... so few mod points :(


    Amazing how they all come out with tales of woe with this or that picky hardware... or bemoan that it's just too subtly different... when the task is the same and just about everything can be done with similar methods they moan about this little bit being in a different menu label or that terminology being different... (Folders vs Directories)

    --
    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.