University of Münster, Germany: Some time ago I went into our library in search for a specific book. I did not find it, so I went to one of those computers that are in there to use the web-search (www.uni-muenster.de/ulb). I sat down at one computer and noticed a *really* ugly user interface. Everything in gray, a really ugly task panel at the bottom. "Typical Windows 95 crap. God, I love my KDE desktop", I thought. Netscape was running. I navigated to the search site, typed in the title and the author of the book, clicked "Search" and... woh. Netscape not responding. Freeze. "Windoze sucks", I thought and hit CTRL-ALT-DEL. Nothing happened. "Shit. Windoze _really_ sucks". I clicked "Start" and then "Programs", but the only application listed was Netscape (the computers there are meant to be only for internet search). No chance to get an explorer window, a task manager, or something else. I thought: "How nice would it be if this were a Unix box. I would hit CTRL-ALT-ESC and kill netscape and everything would be fine. But this fucking windoze...". My finger already was on the way to the power button when I noticed something strange...
... Doesnt Windows have a WHITE mouse cursor? This one was black, just like on my Linux box. I had a deeper look at the Start button. Mmhhh. Somehow this Start button was looking wierd, strange. The proportions just seemed not right. Another deeper look at the window decorations. Looked almost like Windows, but "almost only". I got this strange feeling that I was being fooled...:-) I hit CTRL-ALT-ESC. The mouse cursor turned into a death head. I clicked on the netscape window, killed it, clicked Start->Programs->Netscape, and everything was fine again. That "fucking windoze box" in fact was a Linux box, running fvwm95 or something like that (icewm perhaps?). And I, using Linux everyday at home, did not notice...:-)
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Some time ago I went into our library in search for a specific book.
I did not find it, so I went to one of those computers that are in there to use the web-search (www.uni-muenster.de/ulb).
I sat down at one computer and noticed a *really* ugly user interface. Everything in gray, a really ugly task panel at the bottom.
"Typical Windows 95 crap. God, I love my KDE desktop", I thought.
Netscape was running.
I navigated to the search site, typed in the title and the author of the book, clicked "Search" and... woh. Netscape not responding. Freeze.
"Windoze sucks", I thought and hit CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Nothing happened.
"Shit. Windoze _really_ sucks". I clicked "Start" and then "Programs", but the only application listed was Netscape (the computers there are meant to be only for internet search).
No chance to get an explorer window, a task manager, or something else.
I thought: "How nice would it be if this were a Unix box. I would hit CTRL-ALT-ESC and kill netscape and everything would be fine. But this fucking windoze...".
My finger already was on the way to the power button when I noticed something strange...
... Doesnt Windows have a WHITE mouse cursor?
This one was black, just like on my Linux box.
I had a deeper look at the Start button.
Mmhhh. Somehow this Start button was looking wierd, strange. The proportions just seemed not right.
Another deeper look at the window decorations. Looked almost like Windows, but "almost only".
I got this strange feeling that I was being fooled...
I hit CTRL-ALT-ESC. The mouse cursor turned into a death head. I clicked on the netscape window, killed it, clicked Start->Programs->Netscape, and everything was fine again.
That "fucking windoze box" in fact was a Linux box, running fvwm95 or something like that (icewm perhaps?).
And I, using Linux everyday at home, did not notice...