Beta 8.10 released

[Knapp]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> p.daniels wrote:
>
>> On Saturday October 4 2008 15:43:00 Knapp wrote:
>>> Yes, community is what *ubuntu is about and having the latest and
>>> greatest but the fact that the stuff works without much problem is why
>>> it is being taken up en mass. You drop the "it just works" and you
>>> will loose most of the people that are coming to Linux through Ubuntu
>>> from Windows. Newbie don't want to fix a system or debug it, they want
>>> to use one and learn it. Like it or not Ubuntu is THE newbie system
>>> but there are a lot of other distros just waiting for it to slip up,
>>> Mandriva for example would love to get back the pack. Finding bugs is
>>> not what *ubuntu is about. That is what alpha and beta is about!
>>
>> I agree that Ubuntu (Gnome) is "the n00b Linux," but Kubuntu (KDE) isn't
>> and never has been. I don't recommend it to first-timers, do you?
>
> Er... yes.  It's a darn sight easier for a Windows user to understand KDE
> than Gnome (and it looks better...)
> --
> derek

I have been keeping my head down but I totally agree with you. I have
never heard that Gnome is better for nowbies ether. I started with KDE
then tried Gnome because it was the root of Ubuntu, hated it and went
back to KDE. I start everyone with both. I have yet to have someone
like Gnome over KDE when they move from XP. I have never moved someone
from an Apple but maybe they would like Gnome? I also have no idea why
he thinks KDE is harder than Gnome. I would not call ether of them
hard to use or install unless you have bad Linux hardware.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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