"PCLinuxOS is a live CD distribution that enables users to test Linux without actually having to install it. The highly anticipated new version, PCLinuxOS 2007, was released on Monday. Its intuitive selection of software, high level of stability and functionality, and the quality of the graphics make this the distribution's best release ever."
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Member since:2005-08-09
no matter how long you would hit me
I'm not that angry =)
OS aint about look.
So why most users so concerned about UI?
UI is what you will use.
Although the overall appearance is pretty nice,
things like Windows-cloned "My computer" make me sad.
Whose computer is this if not mine?
Do average Joe know what the computer he using is actually his?
Of course, the start menu is less messy than Windows original.
At least we, (Linux users) have some logical separation of applications.
BTW: OS ain't about name?
Ok, but some do care.
Member since:2006-10-08
"So why most users so concerned about UI?"
because they're looking for something familiar, not for something innovative? Maybe that's why PCLOS looks (to me) too much like this "Windows XP".
"UI is what you will use."
No, the UI is a layer to the applications which you use in fact. But the UI is what you can see. The first view one someting (so somebody) has a deep impact and sets up a prejudice (I do not imply a negavtive connotation here.) which has a big influence on the opinion about an OS or an application. No matter how powerful a program is, if it does not have dancing elephants, it's crap. :-)
"Although the overall appearance is pretty nice,
things like Windows-cloned "My computer" make me sad."
The color sceme and the button appereance supports this way of recognition.
"Whose computer is this if not mine?"
If I borrow a computer from Jim, is it "Jim's computer" then? :-)
"Do average Joe know what the computer he using is actually his?"
Help guy: Please click on "My Computer".
Joe: How am I supposed to click on your computer?
"At least we, (Linux users) have some logical separation of applications."
You are allowed to extend this to all UNIX users. :-)
"BTW: OS ain't about name?
Ok, but some do care."
This is very funny here in Germany, because almost all OS names, no matter if they are sold by MICROS~1 or come from Linux developers, seem to sound strange. Even people who do not know English know some OS or application names, pronouncing them in a strange and sometimes funny way. An opposite: BS2000 from Siemens (Betriebssystem 2000 [seemans betreebssistaym tswuytousand]), this is german. :-)
But I'm not sure an OS's name tells anything about its qualities.
Member since:2005-08-18
Member since:2005-07-18
things like Windows-cloned "My computer" make me sad.
Me too. I know this is a small issue, but I have disliked Microsoft's use of My This and My That from the first time I saw it. It seems like a foolish attempt at mass personalization. Any GNU/Linux distro that copies it is mimicking the bad instead of the good.
Member since:
2005-08-18
PCBSD has a start button too, but no matter how long you would hit me, i would not tell you that it makes PCBSD smell like windows.
OS aint about look.