Linked by Aki Kolehmainen on Tue 29th Apr 2003 03:30 UTC
This is a desktop comparison of Red Hat Linux 9 and SuSE 8.2 Professional Edition. We have used Red Hat Linux 8 for all our work since last fall, and installed version 9 as soon as it became available. However, we have not been fully content with Red Hat, so we gave SuSE 8.2 a try when it became available this month.
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"KDE doesn't have disk mounting applets AFAIK."
Just right-click a disk on the desktop and click Mount or Unmount? Yes, you have to see the desktop indeed so it costs 5 clicks too.
"Nautilus uses an anti-aliased translucent selection rectangle whereas KDE has an ugly inverted dot one."
That's exactly why I like KDE: Gnome's transculent selection is too slow for me. I have a P350 and selecting icons in Gnome is horrible, while it works pretty well in KDE. Not that I use Konqueror a lot - it takes too long to start.
However, besides this, the whole Linux system is rather user-unfriendly. MacOS 7 was friendlier than Linux now. I mean, this is now OpenOffice should be installed: Download openoffice.tgz, double-click to extract, drop it into /opt and that should be all.
And the USB ZIP drive. Tried to use it in SUSE 7.3. At installation it was not plugged in, so when the system was running I plugged it in. Then it should be configured, but nothing of that: I had to research the internet, use a strange command-line tool to find out it was named /dev/sdb, manually edit fstab and then I was finally able to mount it. This is not how it should be: I plug it in, then I want that Konqueror opens automatically in /mnt/zipdrive! Of course you should be able to disable this in case you have a multi-user system :-)
Same for the digital camera. I do not want to manually mount it, I want to plug it in, the system should notice that although this is /dev/sdb too, it should mount it to /mnt/camera and Konqueror should automatically open to this directory - showing the thumbnails of the pictures.
That would be user-friendly. Btw. if you want, read Nautilus instead of Konqueror.