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

[Charles Marcus]

>> Who *cares* what the Users think, ultimately?

> Anybody who wants the Users to accomplish something
> positive. While I will agree that the loss of eye
> candy and other sources of bloat will improve the
> utilization of the hardware, it isn't going to help
> sell the majority of people I know on the value of
> ditching a legacy environment, MANAGEMENT included.

I was responding to a message that said that management had already given
the go ahead to ditch the legacy (Windows) environment.

And it would actually be easier to go straight to a minimalist WM type of
environment, than give them KDE, then take it away.

> Unhappy users expect hand holding, will sabotage
> equipment, insult customers, and generally cost way
> way more in the long run. OK. I'll admit this last
> is an assertion that I can not document/prove. It
> does fit with my experience tho.

Well, if management is keeping a handle on things, they will find out about
garbage like this pretty quickly and file criminal charges (sabotaging
equipment), and or fire someone (for being rude to customers), depending on
the circumstances.

I cannot imagine Users doing the above just because management took away
their Windows and gave them IceWM.

Charles


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