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Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4?
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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yes, congrats kde4, now all you have to do is reliably and legally run all software that runs on windows and I'll buy it.
thanks but thats actually BS :-)
you might call me a troll, but it is pretty easy to spot kde or gnome by the fugly font rendering. you can say about vista what you want, but fontwise vista is the best operating system out there.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
I mean come on. Why else have a computer. And I was an early Vista Adopter (I know someone who works for MSFT, so I got hooked up for basically free) and well I didn't really have hardware to run it (didn't have the sys requirements for aero and all that) But I ran it, it was just slow. I finally bumped my memory and everything was a dream. And after SP1 really Vista is better than XP. I know it was a long time ago, but when I was running 2000, I got a pirate copy of XP, and put it on my older machine, and it ran like crap (way better than ME). Sure it booted about twice as fast as 2000 but that was it. My real gripe with Vista in only that they changed the control panel AGAIN. But at least you can put it back to 2000 style. And the new 2007 office interface without the file bar, it is a better UI than having it. It is just different so people complain. Newer and different isn't always better but you can get used to it. That was a really long rant for saying that KDE cant run Starcraft II which will become important (hopefully) this year.
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Working fine for me on Niggerbuntu, using Wogfox. Haven't tried Mickweasel, or the brother-under-the-skin to Niggerbuntu: Limeyian (with Pommieweasel).
I gave Chinky Explorer/Yankdows a try, but it had rendering issues.
Didn't anyone watch the video closely? Look at 0:38. This is your typical Linux desktop. The picture not only opens slow, but first appears scrambled, then finally looks like it's supposed to. This is very sloppy. The overall speed of the KDE desktop is very sluggish and slow. Moving windows, maximizing or minimizing, opened or closed, it all appears very labored. I've yet to see a single Linux setup that was fast and responsive, no matter if a high end 3d card was used with the default drivers or proprietary ones. This video lives up to my expectations. Linux is very weak in the graphics department.
Any why am I not surprised this particular piece of journalistic fluff comes from Australia? I know it's bad to stereotype, but most of the Australians I've met seem to harbor a large amount of contempt for anything related to the United States. All the better for Linux, since it gives them a way to distance themselves from a large American company (i.e. Microsoft).
"When you see a unixer brainwashed beyond saving, kick him out of the door." - Xah Lee