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Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4?

Posted by timothy on from the spy-vs.-spy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4? In this video, ZDNet takes to Sydney's streets to find out what people think of what they think is a Windows 7 demonstration. The results are surprising." Or maybe they're not surprising at all.

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  1. Is KDE4 actually usable yet? by Viol8 · · Score: 3, Informative

    This isn't a troll - I installed it with Suse 11.0 last year and though it was supposedly a release version it was utterly unusable, unstable and missing important features. I had to install 3.5.4 to actually get some work done. Since then I haven't bothered to check what state 4 is in now as I felt the KDE team (and Suse) had, to be polite, been rather dishonest about it. Is it worthwhile looking at it yet or should I just stick to 3.5 for the forseable future.

    1. Re:Is KDE4 actually usable yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yeah, 4.2 is far, far better than 4. I use it and love it!

    2. Re:Is KDE4 actually usable yet? by the_womble · · Score: 5, Informative

      I blame the distro. They should not have made KDE4 the default so early - they should have stuck with KDE 3 until at least 4.2.

      AS far as I can remember KDE 4.0 was well know not to be really ready.

  2. "I use Windows iMac" by WD · · Score: 4, Informative

    So what does this experiment show? That people just aren't computer savvy.

    1. Re:"I use Windows iMac" by Loosifur · · Score: 3, Informative

      I think that guy actually said, "I use Windows and Mac."

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  3. bait and switch and switch... by argent · · Score: 5, Informative

    I started the video, and it stuttered, and started over... with an actual demonstration of Windows 7. I had to reload the page to get the KDE4 prank video.

    Was that supposed to be some kind of Zen test?

  4. Re:eye candy by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Xfce is your friend.

    I use Xubuntu. Plain, clear, simple and *fast*. 8.10 runs out of the box everything on my ThinkPad laptop including Bluetooth. Get it.

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  5. KDE4 user by DrYak · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been using KDE4 since openSUSE started including the previews.

    I felt the KDE team (and Suse) had, to be polite, been rather dishonest about it.

    I don't know but to me it always seemed clear that the 4.0 was more a "early tester" release.

    By now KDE4.2 is starting to get really usable and really configurable and could be used by more casual users.

    Sure, if you have tons finely tuned stuff in KDE3.5, you'll really miss them.

    But KDE4.2 offers enough basic functionality to be usable by most people.

    Is it worthwhile looking at it yet or should I just stick to 3.5 for the forseable future.

    If you don't depend on highly specific KDE3.5 customisations,
    or if you're ready to spend time re-tuning everything again in a slightly different way,
    then KDE4.2 is definitely worth giving a try.

    On the other hand if you absolutely require the same level of ultra smooth-polished user experience that KDE3.5 offers, you'd better stick with the KDE3.x branch for now and probably wait until somewhere around the KDE4.5 version. (maybe just giving quick shot to KDE4.3 and 4.4 just to watch progress).

    Ditto for KDE5.x in a couple of years : stay with KDE4.5 until that one matures. ;-)

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  6. Re:eye candy by JohnBailey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Can I legally play a DVD on a Linux box in the US?

    Yes.

    Ask Dell. They now include a closed source DVD player app to cover this niggle. The rest of the world uses the free codecs and the libdvdcss library just fine.

    Another Linux roadblock gone eh.. Soon people will have to come up with real arguments.

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  7. Re:not surprising by gutnor · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm sure that most people will see the difference when trying to install a game, sync their PDA (with the instruction on their constructor webpage not matching what they see on their screen) or try to open the crappy humor Powerpoint filling their mailboxes. No need to be a admin to see a subtle difference between linux and windows if you don't have a diligent kid/friend that take care of every single installation problem for you.

    This video reminds me of all those "infomercial" showing the latest innovation in carpet cleaning or kitchen robot ...

  8. Re:not surprising by supernova_hq · · Score: 3, Informative

    Then just give her "a" password, not "that" passord. It's pretty easy to create a user and not make them show up in the login screen ;)

    Or just make a TrueCrypt File called "corruptedVideo.mpg" and put all "that" stuff in there.

    If there's one thing I've learned from women, it's that the only way to win a fight is to make her think SHE won!

  9. Re:Thats it just show the eye candy. by Simonics+Zsolt · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think this is what behind that "feature": http://www.kitterman.org/ScottK/2009/01/bug_254468_momentary_video_gar.html