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

[Luke Dudney]

Luke Dudney 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.
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I suppose I better qualify that... I tried to use CDE on a solaris 
workstation for a while (read: on and off for a few days), but became 
infuriated with trying to do even simple tasks. I'm just glad my 
experience was purely for interest's sake and I was not in a situation 
of trying to get anything productive achieved.

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