[ale] Best Desktop Env or Distro for Windows users?

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Irv Mullins [mailto:irvm at ellijay.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:43 AM
>
> On Wednesday 21 August 2002 08:37 am, you wrote:
>
>> Unless people are running Pentium 150s or something
>> I'd recommend a real desktop ENVIRONMENT like GNOME
>> or (my preference) KDE instead of just a window
>> manager like IceWM. These are windows users who are
>> going to want things like a control panel, a menu
>> panel, icons on the desktop, things they are used to.

> Agreed. Any of the 'lightweight' window managers are
> going to be an immediate and final turnoff for people
> who are used to Windows. They will refuse to use them,
> your cause is lost.

Uh.  If the Company President, or Office Manager, or whover is in charge of
these decisions, mandates that this is the new corporate Desktop, the Users
will have no say-so about it.  They *can't* refuse to use it - all they can
do is complain amopngst themselves, and worst-case, quit and go work
somewhere else.

Managements *only* concern should be that they have the tools they need to
do their job well.

> You can use this as a selling point. Users will be
> impressed with their ability to customize things.
> The only other thing they will care about is that
> Linux may crash less often than Windows.  Anything
> else, no mater how real, will be unimportant.

Who *cares* what the Users think, ultimately?

No, I'm not really the cold-hearted bastard I may sound like, but really -
is Management providing these people computers so they can play with them,
or so they can do their work?  People used to get by with pen, paper and a
typewriter, so do *not* tell me they* have* to have KDE eye-candy to be able
to write a letter, send a fax, or create a Proposal, send email or browse
the web.

Charles


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