Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 13, 2006 01:38 AM
Firefox doesn't "win by default" it wins by ubiquity, like Explorer. As history has shown, that's not exactly a stellar endorsement. Firefox being GTK, integrates much better with GNOME (and even uses their broken file-picker). Ditto for Synaptic. Not exactly DE-agnostic (Not GNOME but not agnostic like WindowMaker widgets). This is kinda moot since KDE4 is going to be cross-platform anyway.
Linux isn't just about winning over Windows users. I've persuaded some people to dual-boot because KDE is shiny and has great extra applications (like KdeEdu), not a clone of Windows. If Firefox had just replicated IE, nobody would've used it. It's different and better so many switched.
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Re:KDE Is My Desktop Of Choice, BUT!!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 13, 2006 01:38 AMLinux isn't just about winning over Windows users. I've persuaded some people to dual-boot because KDE is shiny and has great extra applications (like KdeEdu), not a clone of Windows. If Firefox had just replicated IE, nobody would've used it. It's different and better so many switched.
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