[kde-linux] When you ask a question, comparing to Windows

[david]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> Quite often a newbie asks if KDE has something similar to what they use in 
> Windows.

Sorry, no newbie to either KDE or Windows.

> There's one problem with that.  Many of us don't use Windows at all.  
> I have never seen Vista in action, so haven't a clue what it looks like.

That's OK. I've only seen Vista in action a couple of times myself. And 
we have no Windows machines around here!

> That's not to say that we can't answer the question, but we do need more help.
> 
> If you are asking about an application equivalence, tell us a bit about what 
> the application does (unless it's a *very* well known one that has been around 
> for years.
> 
> If you are asking about a display feature, either describe it thoroughly,

Which I think I did, and got some useful answers (useful if you use KDE4).

> or even better, go to imagebin.org or imageshack.us and paste a screenshot.

That would be useful IF the Windows Vista machine in question wasn't 
3000 miles away from me in the hands of elderly, non-technical people 
who are barely able to handle reading and sending AOL mail ...

> The better we understand your needs, the easier it is to answer.

True.

But in my years of hanging out on Linux email lists, I've frequently 
heard people on Linux lists proclaiming how much better KDE/GNOME/Linux 
is than Windows and/or Mac OS X - yet have never used either. I figured 
there were some folk here knowledgeable enough of know what I was 
talking about - and there were.

-- 
David
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