Linked by Neil Lucock on Tue 22nd Feb 2005 22:17 UTC
I'd better start by admitting that I'm a fan of KDE. It's not because it works like Windows, but for the quality of the tools available. However, a GUI is just a way of doing something and I think I've been a bit dismissive of the Gnome desktop up to now. I read a few reviews of Ubuntu, looked at their web site and decided to have a look. I wanted a general purpose (desktop) distribution and an opportunity to get to know the Gnome utilities.
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No, that is completly wrong! No one should ever have to search for anything or read any manual. It should be self explanatory and just work. Anything less is a bug. <p>Umm..
Will....
These things are computers, not appliances. I've never seen an OS in my life that didn't give me some problems that forced me to learn something to fix it. Even the wonderful OSX gave me some trouble the first time I tried it. I like the learning and I like the trade off for versatility. But if you are a believer that EVERYTHING must "just work" for EVERYBODY, then I suggest you buy a game console and use that only. Its the closest you'll ever get to your Utopia. Something might work well for you, but it will never work well for everybody. A jack of all trades is good at nothing.
Meanwhile, thousands of users enjoy the FLEXIBLILTY and EASE OF USE of the average Ubuntu install.