Comments on: Windows 7, the KDE 3.5 Wannabe?

By: The great boot race - Vista/Win7/Ubuntu (9.04/9.10) - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums

The great boot race - Vista/Win7/Ubuntu (9.04/9.10) - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:45:59 +0000

[...] the Win7 toolbar seems very similar to the KDE 3.5 one. Here's a link to an article all about it: Windows 7, the KDE 3.5 Wannabe? | Internetling __________________ Muhammad BJ Linux addict since August [...]

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:20:35 +0000

@ Dan Harvell. I am a Linux user and lover ever since I discovered the OS. There were times in the past years that Linux could really be painful to set up the way that one wants it to but that taught me a lot and today I can really consider a lot of Windows users as ignorant and unaware when compared with the least among Linux users.
Windows is obviously programmed for such people and to get them hooked like crack addicts.
However, I have to agree with you to a certain extent although I have to say that it’s not really Linux’s fault.

By default there are a lot more hardware that work with Linux than do with Windows. One can also do a lot more with Linux than with Windows on a default installation BUT there are a lot of hardware manufacturers out there that write drivers FOR Windows – that’s the big difference.
That’s why some programmes and/or hardware don’t work as well on Linux as they do on Windows.

If hardware vendors would stand behind Linux half as much as they do behind Windows then I could guarantee you that Windows would be DEAD in the very near future. The same applies to companies that write software for Windows. But they most likely won’t do that (stand behind Linux) because these are proprietary vendors who go to bed with M$. They are all in the same boat, all grinding the same axe. In the meantime Linux continues to grow from strength to strenth and like the laws of nature, nothing can stop it.

By: Dan Harvell

Dan Harvell — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:32:46 +0000

I am not a fan of Microsoft, at all. People who know me also know that I rather despise MS. The problem, however, is – regardless the impressive advances Linux has made in the past decade, it is still a very unstable environment. By unstable, I do not mean it crashes every 5 minutes, like Windows. I mean that Linux is unpredictable how it will behave among the various hardware combinations that are out there. What workds really well for one user will be a disaster with another. And that is just the OS. The available applications have a lot of maturing to do, as well. As a professional photographer, I find that GIMP just does not have the robust features that Photoshop has. Sure, you can do a lot with GIMP, but just not as well as Photoshop. Does Photoshop have a Linux port? Nope. Does it work well with WINE? Questionable. CS3 works okay, but not very stable. I use CS4 which does not even install, under WINE. In short, Linux has impressed me with its growth over the past several years. But Windows remains a polished operating system that just works under all hardware combinations (PC-wise, that is). If you know what you are doing, you can use Windows securely. But, I anxiously await the day that Linux becomes the reliable, polished operating system that Windows has become.

By: Austrija Skijanje

Austrija Skijanje — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:21:28 +0000

I juste rad xp vs win7..and it definitely win7 is winner by many criteria.

By: Italija Skijanje

Italija Skijanje — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:06:27 +0000

I had a problem with windows 7 to put my picture on samsung lcd tv.With xp all working fine.I will try to find something on google for this kind a problem.

By: Reece

Reece — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:11:35 +0000

@winter you asshole you go to system preferences and click mouse and for the second mouse button make it that you dumb fuck, thats what i do, god so brainless fag

By: Bansko Hoteli

Bansko Hoteli — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:20:33 +0000

Windows 7 is everything what vista should be

By: Testando Sistemas Operacionais através de Máquinas Virtuais (VMs) « Jonathas Online – Blog

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:42:56 +0000

[...] seria KDE 3.5? o_0 haha Fontes sobre o que eu to falando: Internetling e Quartoestudio Se não é plágio, então o que é? O KDE 3.5 existe já há muito mais tempo que [...]

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:20:40 +0000

Your comment inspired me to do some Google-ing, and came up with this page http://en.opensuse.org/Kickoff which describes the development process that went into the new OpenSuse menu for 10.2 and 10.3. They did usability studies comparing it to the Vista Beta 2 start menu, and while they can be proud that they got better scores than Vista in their survey, obviously Vista Beta 2 (already identical to the release version with desktop search etc.) was available first, and Novell was aware of it.

So if one is a “verbatim” copy of the other, well…

By: Devlin

Devlin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:06:20 +0000

Colin, As I mentioned above OpenSuse had the menu in 10.3.x which was based on KDE 3.5.x. I don’t know what other distros used it but apparently it became popular enough to add officially in KDE 4.x.x,