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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.

5 of 559 comments (clear)

  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. 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?

  3. 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.

  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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    I hate printers.
  5. 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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    It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.