You are just as bad as most windows users trying out linux for the first time. Just because things don't work the way they are used too they throw a fit. I find this rather annoying, and your comments make it seem like you tried out KDE for at most 5 minutes.
I know a few hardcore gnome users, that have recently converted too using konqueror as a filebrowser and Amarok as there audio app, so your comment about the filebrowsing and 'cool' apps seems like flamebait too me.
BTW you are probably used too the gnome way of handling things (ie reducing functionality), because installing new fonts was simple for me. I just went into Control Centre (kcontrol) and went too the fonts section. From there I browsed too my windows partitions fonts and installed all of the fonts. No hassles, worked straight away.
For me ubuntu has one big problem, it only comes on one disk. I live in South Africa and most people still use dial-up, so I try to avoid downloading packages. When you get mandriva you get 5 discs, or 1 dvd full of software. Granted there is a dvd for ubuntu, but most I know have only ever used the single ubuntu disc. When I introduce them to mandriva they normally thank me cause mp3 and videos work aswell.
(Note: I don't use mandriva, but it was the first distro i used)
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> I don't need a client with Pine -- Pine is the client, and it runs on my home machine, no matter where I access it from.
> Which reduces the client-side needs considerably. All I need is a shell of a few K in any computer system. You, on the
> other hand, require a multi-megabyte browser that supports client-side operations.
Last time I checked, lynx was pretty lightweight. I have checked my GMail account a few times from lynx, and it worked fine.
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You are just as bad as most windows users trying out linux for the first time. Just because things don't work the way they are used too they throw a fit. I find this rather annoying, and your comments make it seem like you tried out KDE for at most 5 minutes.
I know a few hardcore gnome users, that have recently converted too using konqueror as a filebrowser and Amarok as there audio app, so your comment about the filebrowsing and 'cool' apps seems like flamebait too me.
BTW you are probably used too the gnome way of handling things (ie reducing functionality), because installing new fonts was simple for me. I just went into Control Centre (kcontrol) and went too the fonts section. From there I browsed too my windows partitions fonts and installed all of the fonts. No hassles, worked straight away.
I found a way too make myspace readable and usable, it's called Lynx. (http://lynx.browser.org/)
Finally Linux is catching up with Windows. No I can distribute version of Linux illegally, just like my friends using Windows.
For me ubuntu has one big problem, it only comes on one disk. I live in South Africa and most people still use dial-up, so I try to avoid downloading packages. When you get mandriva you get 5 discs, or 1 dvd full of software. Granted there is a dvd for ubuntu, but most I know have only ever used the single ubuntu disc. When I introduce them to mandriva they normally thank me cause mp3 and videos work aswell. (Note: I don't use mandriva, but it was the first distro i used)
> I don't need a client with Pine -- Pine is the client, and it runs on my home machine, no matter where I access it from. > Which reduces the client-side needs considerably. All I need is a shell of a few K in any computer system. You, on the > other hand, require a multi-megabyte browser that supports client-side operations. Last time I checked, lynx was pretty lightweight. I have checked my GMail account a few times from lynx, and it worked fine.