[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyways, whats the use? You still don't understand, > I guess! > -------------- > > My dear, > This is Incredimail, a different mail software from Outlook Express, > just to use the beautiful backgrounds while sending mails to other > persons. It has some 3D effects and sounds which makes it more
this shows that the people say "linux linux" and then use softwares such as Incredimail ( which for me is the crappiest software ever produced, taking all the standards for a spin <- my personal opinion ). just how many of yu have really put linux to the desktop instead of just installing it on a server and letting it run? how many of yu have removed their windows partitions completely so that yu can devote it to linux? how many of yu switch on the machines in their office and open evolution/mozilla instead of outlook/IE? and when at home run xine, gaim, armagetron, unreal and gnucash. i've seen people upgrading their machines, assiging 3 GB to linux and the remaining 37 GB to windows. others install linux on a cheap celeron 333 with 2.1 GB hdd 64 MB RAM and keep pentium4 1.7 Ghz reserved for windows. even if they install linux, they rarely boot it, and if they boot it they'd run it for an hour or so and expect it to work exactly like windows, and when it can't perform that way, they'll reboot. and here i'm not only talking about newbies but those who've done linux installations and are very comfortable in downloading apache and compiling it themeselves. still they've their desktop as windows. and i think there are three reasons why moms, dads and joe sixpacks don't give much importance to linux - looks, looks and looks. i'd attended a redhat seminar arranged by er&dci, and their a redhat executive (his name was sachin as far as i remember) was presenting The Linux Desktop, and his desktop was pathetic with hues of yellows and greens (and he also crashed xine twice :)). first impression is the last impression. if yu compare default desktop of windows 98 and mandrake 8.2, and also run internet explorer/galeon or mozilla and open a website, you'll definitely choose win98. despite having the best of the tools, its the final presentation which is just not up to the mark. that's why windows xp wins hands down because despite having n number of problems regarding stability / security, its simply the difference between riding in a maruti 800 and riding in a bmw (mercedes benz reserved for osX). yu will reach your destination using either of them, it depends on how smoothly yu want to go. and i believe, till a home user will not use linux, neither will the office user. i'm running linux full time, gnome 2 desktop and do coding, surfing, mails, movies, audio, gimping, im'ing/irc'ing, and sometimes games, and i'm a home user. so my father, mother and little sister also use the same thing, and since gnome2 have started liking linux better than before, that my little sister told me her horrifying experience when she was at her friend's place which had xp, and she was not able to use tabbed windows of mozilla and gaim and all those annoying pop-ups always cropped up (making her browsing and chatting a mess), and there were no way she could have multiple workspaces to work in, and when she saved the documents they got saved in some "documents" folder which were accessible to everyone using that machine, and that is music to my ears. i don't know what exactly did i want to say by writing this mail, but really wanted to write something after the incredimail message, maybe it was to vent out my frustration, maybe it was to share a point, maybe write something good and then make a request to unsubscribe "thakur" automagically from the list, maybe it is late in the night and i'm tired, or maybe i just want to show everyone my desktop :D visit http://exain.net/vike/shots/ and see how my desktop looks :) (1st one is the latest). vivek P.S. the uptime there is 0 days 2 hours and some minutes because i'd to repair the powerplug and just had to shutdown the machine, otherwise it'd have been 27 days and a few hours and a few minutes, and i'm running linux fulltime for the last 2 years at my office and 1 year at my home. ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
