Use dynamic keyboard shortcuts and change ctrl+shift+L to other combination what you like.
To move copy of selection
1. R to retancle (or other selection tool) 2. select area 3. press enter 4. press M to move tool / press ctrl+alt 5. drag selection
To move selection
1. R to retancle (or other selection tool) 2. select area 3. press ctrl+enter 4. press M to move tool / press ctrl+alt 5. drag selection
With mouse
1. select selection tool with mouse 2. select area 3. right click to get menu > selection > float (one click) 4. move your selection and move cursor outside of selection and click to anchor it or press "new layer" button to set it as new layer.
I'm having problems with Nvidia and ATI drivers on windows and on GNU/Linux side. With different motherboards and different 3D cards and with different drivers.
Many users bashes ATI because they old driver style. My friend dont have any issues with ATI on windows but linux side he has. I didnt have 9700 on Linux side but with windows i did. Now on 8600GT i get so much problems that it's just enought just to mention that i have them.
Best drivers what i have seen has come from Intel and #2 position is ATI and last one is Nvidia.
These are my experienses what i have collected from my PC's and my friend systems too.
Many user just says something "these drivers sucks so bad that..." even without testing them.
I even buyed Vista (with OEM version just 20 euros) to know it sucks. I didnt even just dumped when i feeled it was enough, i used it few months to learn what problems normal user might get and how to resolve them. And i did even have big problems even GNU/Linux and previous windows versions i can handle very well.
Same thing with 3D drivers, need to know almoust every possible problem and what is good and what is bad to tell just something 'neutral'.
We need more open API's and open specs to get things work... it just takes time.
And with new coming version, 2.4 selection has better operations. Dont anymore just referr to 2.3.x series when 2.4 RC3 is out... it has got much good usability for it. Like when you make selection, you can move and adjust it easily with mouse. You get draggers etc.
And 2.4 version has color profiles for printers, monitors, pictures, scanners etc etc... you can easily swap those or just preview how it would look as printed.
For windows i use 2.2.17 version but on GNU/Linux, i use RC3 and most of time i have develope version installed next to stable so i can test new ideas. And 2.4 is MUCH better than 2.2.x series...
I Found Blender GUI much better than other 3D applications (Lightwave or Maya). But i might be very different user because i found GIMP GUI better than Photoshop. And i even use Photoshop everyday on work but Gimp on my PC at home. Now when Gimp has colorprofile control there is no need for PS but i need to use it because i cant get Gimp to workstastion.
But i hate Windows GUI and like MacOSX gui but i love KDE outfit and it's actions, Gnome? I just hate it.....
When i get blender front of my screen, i just like it how easy it is to use and when i open my files on other blender machines, i get my GUI settings same time....
Actually it's "BUbble 1.5". Big Corporations has not learned that, that kind simple community sites dont have such big value in money.. mayby we could speak about hundreds of thousands euros here but about billions... no... no way....
When 2.0 Bubble comes, then even big corporations has learned that big money isn't on these sites..
He ain't a Swedish Finn but Finn Swedish. Because he was living in Finland and spoke Swedish as home language. If he would live in Sweden and speak Finnish as home language, then he would be Swedish Finn...
Swedish Finn != Finn Swedish
Swedish Finn = Lives in Sweden and speaks Finnish Finn Swedish = Lives in Finland and speaks Swedish
"By giving you more control of the OS internals, and by having a steeper usage learning curve."
Where i can read that study that GNU/Linux has steeper learning curve?
As far i know from experience, with Gnome or with KDE, it is much easier for older and younger people to learn using computer than with windows XP or windows Vista. They dont need know what C:\ stands for or D:\ and what is virus and why on everything can have virus in it etc. And when it comes about deeper understanding about how OS works, GNU/Linux just gives them much easier start because no one is blockin their thirsty for wisdom...
They just can use system and enjoy and forget that they are running different OS... And this is big help for schools when they teach first time users to use internet and software to complete tasks.
Let the freedom come back to users.....
ps. There will be big aftershock for Microsoft after 10 years when corporations starts using GNU/Linux because that's what people has learned on schools.
[Offtopic]
Can someone explain why OOXML supporters always says that ODF format isn't open because SUN has power to rule it and has made same promise as Microsoft for OOXML not to sue users who implent it? And reason for this is that ODF standard needs java and so on?
Is there same reason for why OpenOffice.org cant be really open if it needs java and sun for it?
For me, OS is kernel + GNU. where GNU is basic system utilities. TOP of that, i can select WHAT I WANT. I can use KDE, GNOME, Blackbox, IceWM etc.
I think that, what is needed to run OS and get software installed and run it, is basic OS. Linux is part of OS. GNU is part of OS. But Linux+GNU = OS.
For desktop use, usually 99% you need graphical desktop for Office and OpenOffice.org and for WWW. But still you can choose what ever DE you use (on linux). Windows side, you cant use normal windows so easily from CLI. I cannot start playing game from there what would just run game itself on X. I cannot use IRC, WWW, EMAIL, ICQ/MSN/AOL etc from CLI. On linux, i can do that. I can keep whole system pure CLI and when i need something what needs Xorg, i can start it and use what DE i like.
On windows, i cannot choose what DE i would use because current desktop is only one. And it is needed to even use that OS. On linux, it's not needed to have server and even basic desktop softwares.
So, Linux+GNU is just BASIC OS. Xorg top of basic OS is most thing what users just see as OS and think it is OS. Thats why many windows / Ubuntu users thinks that Ubuntu is so easy vs SUSE because it has so intuitive desktop and easy to use filemanager and nice theme, while SUSE is with ugly desktop where you have alots those configure options. And they dont understand they are talking about KDE and GNOME and not Operation System what is under Xorg.
If there is only one developer who makes wrong turn on developing, it's happening and there is nothing we can do unless there are few other developers who can take "control" and build own version what to offer. And if it comes more popular then than original, then it can start be used by default and not the original one.
This is good idea on OpenSource.
If Mozilla is now doing wrong turns, everything what it needs is few developers starts making own version and takes good ideas from original and add them to own and keeps bad ideas away. There is no reason just to whine how something did go wrong.
All developers has potential to change a lot when it's about Open Source, question is just, do they want to do that or just cry why bad things are happening?
Try Digikam, great application for image managing. F-spot is good if user only have few hundred photos. I manage my over 42 000 picture archive with digikam and it is faster than Lightroom.
For Gnome users (ubuntu) Digikam isn't so great because it is KDE related software and Gnome apps dont know how to use KIO slaves so well, thats why gnome users should try F-spot first.
1. Fonts, they are simply not as good as Windows. You can ALWAYS change them to others, or use windows owns if you have license. Internet is full of free fonts.
2. Ease of use. Nobody has sat first time users in front of a linux desktop and watch them puzzle over what those multiple desktops do, or how to switch between them. Do you know even how easy to use virtualdesktops are with Beryl/Compiz? They know after first cube roration that there are more desktops than one. Problem is that on default desktop there is no animation for desktop change, windows just popup and disapears from desktop when changing.
3. Basic styling problems. Needless flickery redraws of desktops. Uneven and asymetric layouts, huge icons in some places, tiny icons in others. Isometric icons( a classic sign of a programmer drawing an icon instead of an artist drawning icons). I see that you have used KDE/Gnome mayby 6-8 years ago. http://kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1& id=32070&file1=32070-1.jpg&file2=32070-2.jpg&file3 =&name=screenshot+kde+3.5 I dont see any flickery if i dont set VESA or VGA driver ON and i dont have any reasons for it. Icon size can ALWAYS change easily on everyplace.
And artist makes icons for KDE and Gnome, not coders, even if someone is coder too. http://kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1& id=25668&file1=25668-1.jpg&file2=&file3=&name=Crys tal+Clear http://kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1& id=26449&file1=26449-1.jpg&file2=&file3=&name=nuov eXT
4. Lack of help, I try to save, it fails, where's the link to the help that tells me that this is a security feature and I can only save in some places. Lack of help if there comes a box what says user dont have permission to write directory or a file. Same thing on windows, of cource users run windows as admin so there is no warning if user wants save PDF to../system32/
5. I am not interested in your philosophy, assemble me a bundle of software that fits my needs regardless of whether than software fits your philosophy. I'm not interested either, i just like everything WORKS like I WANT and i can get easily do my task on my PC and i dont need to hunt software around a web.
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> how does linux improve your productivity?
I can do my tasks and jobs by my way, not by way what Microsoft thinks is best for everyone.
Like very part tip of iceberg is KDE kip-slaves.
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You can use linux because it is free, i dont. And MANY others dont. I use it because it is powerfull and thats why very easy to use. I get done all my works what i need to do on so many ways that my OS isn't problem why i cant do my job or tasks. When i used windows, i almost always needed to solve problems how to do tasks or what limits it has and how i can get around them. No, not with linux. I can find so many ways and choose and later choose different.
I like to use KDE what gives me more options and "very easy to use" -Desktop what windows cannot offer.
I have installed linux + gnome now over 170 PC for privat customers and #1 problem what is asked solution for problem from me is nothing to do with linux. There is A LOT less calls and emails from linux users than windows users. And no, i dont have any customers who have Vista so i cant say about that anything.
Yes, if normal work is that windows finds hardware and you can have drivers for it. hardware is 100% supported. If "work" means that there is no problems with drivers on normal use and hardware always works how it is suppost to work. then it might be about 90% at most.
I had 4 TV cards... 2 Digital and 2 Analog... none of them worked on windows, on linux, two of them worked. Just i needed them to windows box and even tryed them on 3 windows mahines... No help for drivers on CD, updated drivers or even beta drivers... and all was desing for XP.
Same thing happened even with MS keyboard, it pressed buttons by self and not always responded to buttons. 2 times i went to change keyboard for new one and always it did have problem... But, not with linux, but on that, those super "fancy" multimediabuttons didnt work out-of-box. So i buyed logitech.
RAID PCI cards... i have two samekind and both work great on linux but windows did loose other drive sometimes. And again, Design for XP.....
Oh well... i got Vista Beta1 - RC2 versions to test and it was last windows what i have used... now only SUSE is up and running and hardware works great on that, no failures, no error messages... just working like hardware should work on PC. And those aren't even desing to work with linux.
And this is even posted with MacOSX what is much better than windows XP or MUCH better than Vista.
"Windows is annoying about the scroll wheel -- it always affects the focussed application, not the one the mouse is over."
Thats what i hate on windows, and now little bit more on KDE after 3.5 series when they changed that scroll dont scroll list under mouse like on list on webpage, but webpage itself and user need use mouse to drag scrollbar to select what wants.
is there option to change it back so all scrollable list will be scrolled by hovering mouse and using scroll.
"An operating system that can't play DVDs without some shady "wink, wink, nudge, nudge, here are the addresses of some mirrors in France," is a non-starter for most people."
Installing DVD codecs to windows mediaplayer is much harder than DVD support for all linux mediaplayers. In ubuntu, it is even more easier, thanks to automatix. Oh yes, it can be against local law on some countrys, but almoust only in U.S. On other countries user can install libdvdcss etc..
IE7 will be installed almoust every windows machine because it will come as security update. Firefox 2.0 will not and is needed to download by user. Like there is many Ubuntu 6.04 users and it seems that firefox 2.0 will not come for those machines as security update. Users would need to update 6.10 version to get it. (or am i very wrong about this?:-D)
2 million downloads is very nice number, if IE7 has got only 3 in 3 days, i think it will be tie, after few days.
# The system tray does not close with loss of focus If you bring up the media detector menu, you have to either start picasa or stop the media detector to get the menu to go away.
You can "skip" that by pressing again mouse over icon and keeping it pressed and then move cursor away from icon and then release it.
"How do I do that?" "I can't find the app I want." "What about my games/apps from Windows?" "Hey I downloaded this program, what do I have to do to make it work?" "Why can't I just buy a CD and stick it in the drive to install a program like I do with Windows?" "Why won't (insert website or online media) load right?"
And when user has used other OS's than windows they ask SAME questions about windows. "Where is apt-get", "why i cant just drag'n'drop program here and use it?" "What is this antivirus software?" "Why i need reboot to use this software after install?" "Why i need to change these CD's on drive, why i cant just install them from network?" "Why Command prompt dont start application what i want?" "What is My computer and My documents?" "What is C:\ and D:\???" "Why this dont work?".....
I know many users who dont like anymore windows, they have used them many years and when i installed linux on those machines, they didnt need windows anymore, Only few of them play with computers and others with console's. Everytime when i see them, they are happier than ever with their computers....
AmaroK just is much better audio player than any other. Everyone can has own favorite player, like someone says WMP is best, usually windows users just haven't get change to use AmaroK and feel they way how well it does everything:-)
If someday AmaroK and Kaffeine can be join together like Kmail and Knode in kontact, it will become a WMP kind software. Who knows if it would be even better than those two alone.;-)
All people i know who use MacOSX computers dont know anything about computers. Hardly they know what is folder and what is program what they run. And almoust everyone who use PC and who i know, knows much more about computer, but still they have more problems because of windows. Same thing with Gnome is with few users that they dont know what kind computer they are running.
If someone says he/she knows a lot from computers, they must be a Windows users, they need to know what kind hardware and software they run and how to fix things and protect own computer.
"One mis-click on a tab (which is very common when managing a dozen or so tabs) and you've just closed an important page with no confirmation dialog."
That place for close button is not problem, it is how it could work. If that button works like default buttond does, it can be problematic for someone. If that button works like konversation tab close button, it would be great. Konversation "close button" works so that you need hover mouse cursor over it a 500ms until it allows you to press it.
And when tabs have own close button, user can much easily close tabs what he wants without opening them first/again.
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Use dynamic keyboard shortcuts and change ctrl+shift+L to other combination what you like.
To move copy of selection
1. R to retancle (or other selection tool)
2. select area
3. press enter
4. press M to move tool / press ctrl+alt
5. drag selection
To move selection
1. R to retancle (or other selection tool)
2. select area
3. press ctrl+enter
4. press M to move tool / press ctrl+alt
5. drag selection
With mouse
1. select selection tool with mouse
2. select area
3. right click to get menu > selection > float (one click)
4. move your selection and move cursor outside of selection and click to anchor it or press "new layer" button to set it as new layer.
I'm having problems with Nvidia and ATI drivers on windows and on GNU/Linux side. With different motherboards and different 3D cards and with different drivers. Many users bashes ATI because they old driver style. My friend dont have any issues with ATI on windows but linux side he has. I didnt have 9700 on Linux side but with windows i did. Now on 8600GT i get so much problems that it's just enought just to mention that i have them. Best drivers what i have seen has come from Intel and #2 position is ATI and last one is Nvidia. These are my experienses what i have collected from my PC's and my friend systems too. Many user just says something "these drivers sucks so bad that..." even without testing them. I even buyed Vista (with OEM version just 20 euros) to know it sucks. I didnt even just dumped when i feeled it was enough, i used it few months to learn what problems normal user might get and how to resolve them. And i did even have big problems even GNU/Linux and previous windows versions i can handle very well. Same thing with 3D drivers, need to know almoust every possible problem and what is good and what is bad to tell just something 'neutral'. We need more open API's and open specs to get things work... it just takes time.
And with new coming version, 2.4 selection has better operations. Dont anymore just referr to 2.3.x series when 2.4 RC3 is out... it has got much good usability for it. Like when you make selection, you can move and adjust it easily with mouse. You get draggers etc.
And 2.4 version has color profiles for printers, monitors, pictures, scanners etc etc... you can easily swap those or just preview how it would look as printed.
For windows i use 2.2.17 version but on GNU/Linux, i use RC3 and most of time i have develope version installed next to stable so i can test new ideas. And 2.4 is MUCH better than 2.2.x series...
I Found Blender GUI much better than other 3D applications (Lightwave or Maya). But i might be very different user because i found GIMP GUI better than Photoshop. And i even use Photoshop everyday on work but Gimp on my PC at home. Now when Gimp has colorprofile control there is no need for PS but i need to use it because i cant get Gimp to workstastion. But i hate Windows GUI and like MacOSX gui but i love KDE outfit and it's actions, Gnome? I just hate it..... When i get blender front of my screen, i just like it how easy it is to use and when i open my files on other blender machines, i get my GUI settings same time....
"I believe you mean "Bubble 2.0.""
Actually it's "BUbble 1.5". Big Corporations has not learned that, that kind simple community sites dont have such big value in money.. mayby we could speak about hundreds of thousands euros here but about billions... no... no way....
When 2.0 Bubble comes, then even big corporations has learned that big money isn't on these sites..
"Linus is a Swedish Finn not a Finn Finn"
He ain't a Swedish Finn but Finn Swedish. Because he was living in Finland and spoke Swedish as home language. If he would live in Sweden and speak Finnish as home language, then he would be Swedish Finn...
Swedish Finn != Finn Swedish
Swedish Finn = Lives in Sweden and speaks Finnish
Finn Swedish = Lives in Finland and speaks Swedish
"By giving you more control of the OS internals, and by having a steeper usage learning curve."
Where i can read that study that GNU/Linux has steeper learning curve?
As far i know from experience, with Gnome or with KDE, it is much easier for older and younger people to learn using computer than with windows XP or windows Vista.
They dont need know what C:\ stands for or D:\ and what is virus and why on everything can have virus in it etc.
And when it comes about deeper understanding about how OS works, GNU/Linux just gives them much easier start because no one is blockin their thirsty for wisdom...
They just can use system and enjoy and forget that they are running different OS...
And this is big help for schools when they teach first time users to use internet and software to complete tasks.
Let the freedom come back to users.....
ps. There will be big aftershock for Microsoft after 10 years when corporations starts using GNU/Linux because that's what people has learned on schools.
"At minus 40 celcius you don't smell the feet of a penguin."
br> At -40C you smell very well.... have you ever be on -40 Celsius?
[Offtopic] Can someone explain why OOXML supporters always says that ODF format isn't open because SUN has power to rule it and has made same promise as Microsoft for OOXML not to sue users who implent it? And reason for this is that ODF standard needs java and so on? Is there same reason for why OpenOffice.org cant be really open if it needs java and sun for it?
For me, OS is kernel + GNU. where GNU is basic system utilities. TOP of that, i can select WHAT I WANT. I can use KDE, GNOME, Blackbox, IceWM etc. I think that, what is needed to run OS and get software installed and run it, is basic OS. Linux is part of OS. GNU is part of OS. But Linux+GNU = OS. For desktop use, usually 99% you need graphical desktop for Office and OpenOffice.org and for WWW. But still you can choose what ever DE you use (on linux). Windows side, you cant use normal windows so easily from CLI. I cannot start playing game from there what would just run game itself on X. I cannot use IRC, WWW, EMAIL, ICQ/MSN/AOL etc from CLI. On linux, i can do that. I can keep whole system pure CLI and when i need something what needs Xorg, i can start it and use what DE i like. On windows, i cannot choose what DE i would use because current desktop is only one. And it is needed to even use that OS. On linux, it's not needed to have server and even basic desktop softwares. So, Linux+GNU is just BASIC OS. Xorg top of basic OS is most thing what users just see as OS and think it is OS. Thats why many windows / Ubuntu users thinks that Ubuntu is so easy vs SUSE because it has so intuitive desktop and easy to use filemanager and nice theme, while SUSE is with ugly desktop where you have alots those configure options. And they dont understand they are talking about KDE and GNOME and not Operation System what is under Xorg.
If there is only one developer who makes wrong turn on developing, it's happening and there is nothing we can do unless there are few other developers who can take "control" and build own version what to offer. And if it comes more popular then than original, then it can start be used by default and not the original one. This is good idea on OpenSource. If Mozilla is now doing wrong turns, everything what it needs is few developers starts making own version and takes good ideas from original and add them to own and keeps bad ideas away. There is no reason just to whine how something did go wrong. All developers has potential to change a lot when it's about Open Source, question is just, do they want to do that or just cry why bad things are happening?
Try Digikam, great application for image managing. F-spot is good if user only have few hundred photos. I manage my over 42 000 picture archive with digikam and it is faster than Lightroom.
For Gnome users (ubuntu) Digikam isn't so great because it is KDE related software and Gnome apps dont know how to use KIO slaves so well, thats why gnome users should try F-spot first.
http://kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1
I dont see any flickery if i dont set VESA or VGA driver ON and i dont have any reasons for it.
Icon size can ALWAYS change easily on everyplace.
And artist makes icons for KDE and Gnome, not coders, even if someone is coder too.
http://kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1
http://kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1
> how does linux improve your productivity? I can do my tasks and jobs by my way, not by way what Microsoft thinks is best for everyone. Like very part tip of iceberg is KDE kip-slaves.
You can use linux because it is free, i dont. And MANY others dont. I use it because it is powerfull and thats why very easy to use. I get done all my works what i need to do on so many ways that my OS isn't problem why i cant do my job or tasks.
When i used windows, i almost always needed to solve problems how to do tasks or what limits it has and how i can get around them. No, not with linux. I can find so many ways and choose and later choose different.
I like to use KDE what gives me more options and "very easy to use" -Desktop what windows cannot offer.
I have installed linux + gnome now over 170 PC for privat customers and #1 problem what is asked solution for problem from me is nothing to do with linux. There is A LOT less calls and emails from linux users than windows users. And no, i dont have any customers who have Vista so i cant say about that anything.
Yes, if normal work is that windows finds hardware and you can have drivers for it. hardware is 100% supported. If "work" means that there is no problems with drivers on normal use and hardware always works how it is suppost to work. then it might be about 90% at most. I had 4 TV cards... 2 Digital and 2 Analog... none of them worked on windows, on linux, two of them worked. Just i needed them to windows box and even tryed them on 3 windows mahines... No help for drivers on CD, updated drivers or even beta drivers... and all was desing for XP. Same thing happened even with MS keyboard, it pressed buttons by self and not always responded to buttons. 2 times i went to change keyboard for new one and always it did have problem... But, not with linux, but on that, those super "fancy" multimediabuttons didnt work out-of-box. So i buyed logitech. RAID PCI cards... i have two samekind and both work great on linux but windows did loose other drive sometimes. And again, Design for XP..... Oh well... i got Vista Beta1 - RC2 versions to test and it was last windows what i have used... now only SUSE is up and running and hardware works great on that, no failures, no error messages... just working like hardware should work on PC. And those aren't even desing to work with linux. And this is even posted with MacOSX what is much better than windows XP or MUCH better than Vista.
"Windows is annoying about the scroll wheel -- it always affects the focussed application, not the one the mouse is over."
Thats what i hate on windows, and now little bit more on KDE after 3.5 series when they changed that scroll dont scroll list under mouse like on list on webpage, but webpage itself and user need use mouse to drag scrollbar to select what wants. is there option to change it back so all scrollable list will be scrolled by hovering mouse and using scroll.
"An operating system that can't play DVDs without some shady "wink, wink, nudge, nudge, here are the addresses of some mirrors in France," is a non-starter for most people."
Installing DVD codecs to windows mediaplayer is much harder than DVD support for all linux mediaplayers.
In ubuntu, it is even more easier, thanks to automatix. Oh yes, it can be against local law on some countrys, but almoust only in U.S. On other countries user can install libdvdcss etc..
IE7 will be installed almoust every windows machine because it will come as security update. Firefox 2.0 will not and is needed to download by user. Like there is many Ubuntu 6.04 users and it seems that firefox 2.0 will not come for those machines as security update. Users would need to update 6.10 version to get it. (or am i very wrong about this? :-D)
2 million downloads is very nice number, if IE7 has got only 3 in 3 days, i think it will be tie, after few days.
I have used these chairs now 6-7 years and it is only chair model what will keep all back pains away..... http://www.salli.com/
# The system tray does not close with loss of focus
If you bring up the media detector menu, you have to either start picasa or stop the media detector to get the menu to go away.
You can "skip" that by pressing again mouse over icon and keeping it pressed and then move cursor away from icon and then release it.
"How do I do that?" "I can't find the app I want." "What about my games/apps from Windows?" "Hey I downloaded this program, what do I have to do to make it work?" "Why can't I just buy a CD and stick it in the drive to install a program like I do with Windows?" "Why won't (insert website or online media) load right?"
And when user has used other OS's than windows they ask SAME questions about windows. "Where is apt-get", "why i cant just drag'n'drop program here and use it?" "What is this antivirus software?" "Why i need reboot to use this software after install?" "Why i need to change these CD's on drive, why i cant just install them from network?" "Why Command prompt dont start application what i want?" "What is My computer and My documents?" "What is C:\ and D:\???" "Why this dont work?".....
I know many users who dont like anymore windows, they have used them many years and when i installed linux on those machines, they didnt need windows anymore, Only few of them play with computers and others with console's. Everytime when i see them, they are happier than ever with their computers....
AmaroK just is much better audio player than any other. Everyone can has own favorite player, like someone says WMP is best, usually windows users just haven't get change to use AmaroK and feel they way how well it does everything :-)
If someday AmaroK and Kaffeine can be join together like Kmail and Knode in kontact, it will become a WMP kind software. Who knows if it would be even better than those two alone. ;-)
All people i know who use MacOSX computers dont know anything about computers. Hardly they know what is folder and what is program what they run. And almoust everyone who use PC and who i know, knows much more about computer, but still they have more problems because of windows. Same thing with Gnome is with few users that they dont know what kind computer they are running. If someone says he/she knows a lot from computers, they must be a Windows users, they need to know what kind hardware and software they run and how to fix things and protect own computer.
"One mis-click on a tab (which is very common when managing a dozen or so tabs) and you've just closed an important page with no confirmation dialog." That place for close button is not problem, it is how it could work. If that button works like default buttond does, it can be problematic for someone. If that button works like konversation tab close button, it would be great. Konversation "close button" works so that you need hover mouse cursor over it a 500ms until it allows you to press it. And when tabs have own close button, user can much easily close tabs what he wants without opening them first/again.