On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Aaron Konstam wrote: > This is not a deep thought but something that occurred to me that I have not > seen commented on anywhere else. If you were a windows user you would feel > really at home in psyche. Most windows users get no farther than using Windows > office and a browser. In RH 8 there they are on the task bar. The main menu > looks vaguely familiar. You can run a program from the run option or choose from > added programs which look a lot like the selection in windows. Sure there is > more depth than that in RH 8 but it looks like a real attempt on Red Hat's part > to sell the product to former Microsoft fans. The Windows office files seem > even compatible with psyche office files. > Quite a clever strategy if you ask me. What so others think? I think I'll be going to Debian. That's what I think. Simple things I've been doing for Eons I now can't. Like maximise a Window vertically or horizontally. My favourite time-waster (freecell) isn't on a KDE menu, and I still don't think Gnome's up to it. Packages I use occasionally, such as metamail, now aren't there. I like the idea that, if I say "Install gnucash" that apt-get will get all the prerequisite libraries and install those too. Not only that, but it checks for and gets the latest version for my release. Unlike up2date, it gets it from my install CDs or from my local mirror and _NOT_ from some place on the far side of the world. Sure, it's standard installer isn't too flash, but once installed it's fine. The good thing about Windows is that it's easy to start using it. A bad thing it's it's hard to become much more adept, RHL has become more like that, and I'm now looking elsewhere. Cheers John Summerfield -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
