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Choice: Bliss or Burden?
New users are overwhelmed by breadth of choice
Fail-safe configuration for newbies
- KDE
- Mozilla Web Browser & Email Client
- OpenOffice.org
Special needs not compromised
- Nostalgics: “I'll die with TWM on my screen”
- Geeks: “I compiled GNOME from source and it loads in 1,2 seconds”
- Old hardware: “Mozilla takes 3 minutes to load with 8MB of RAM on my 100MHz box”
Notes:
Lindows attempts to provide a standard, no-choice configuration, pretty much like OS vendors.
RedHat attempts to provide a unified look with its “BlueCurve” theme, which makes GNOME and KDE look pretty much the same. Some people like this integration (one interface, one set of rules), others do what they have to, to get their real desktop back.