Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Oct 2005 17:44 UTC
Don't expect hegemony from a single Linux vendor on the desktop comparable with Microsoft's Office, as rival frameworks and implementations tackle different markets. That's according to Red Hat fellow Alan Cox, who said research indicates users are adopting KDE and Gnome to serve different scenarios. Evidence from different reports suggests KDE is more widely used in Europe and Gnome in the US.
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I realize you're probably trolling, but actually, research disagrees with you. I'm afraid I don't have the article handy, but I recall reading a while back that usability studies had indicated that people switching from Windows to Linux found Gnome easier to use, due to the fact that it was clearly different to Windows, but still familiar; whereas KDE is so similar that it confused users who expected it to be therefore identical.
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I assume that he wants to explain the supperiority of the KDE Desktop which of course is a good thing that could happen for Linux and all the derivate POSIX compliant OS' that KDE runs on. With KDE it's easier for people from the Windows world to imigrate because they simply feel home.