Windows XP vs. X11 GUIs [was: Re: [plug] [OT] Looking for cheap P4]

[Luke Dudney]

James Devenish wrote:

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> (Yes, I'm a Windows "n00b", as some people say.)
>I know this sounds like a silly little rant, but my honest impression
>from using Windows XP is that CDE* doesn't seem so bad after all (does
>that make me mentally ill?).
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I'd say yes, absolutely. My honest impression is that XP is so 
overwhelmingly more usable than CDE that claiming otherwise seems almost 
asinine.

>* CDE is the "Common Desktop Environment", a dated X11 desktop system
>  used with many proprietary UNIX systems.
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