| Getting Started with KDE [Linux Business Week] |
Jan. 24, 2002
Linux Business Week has published an interesting and informative article about getting started with KDE. Mike McCallister writes . . .
"Your business is considering making the leap from Windows to Linux. You broach the idea with the clerical staff, and they respond with fear, uncertainty and doubt. 'I don't know anything about Linux,' they say, 'and I'm finally comfortable with how Windows works. How do you expect me to learn a brand-new way to do things???' "
"Two of the biggest myths about Linux on the desktop are: (a) everything in Linux is done from the forbidding command line; and (b) the learning curve is steeper than Mount Everest for normal human beings to actually get anything done. The truth is it's not really that hard anymore to get things done. Linux is now 10 years old, and people who have run Windows can easily get used to how Linux works . . ."
"Consider that there are now two dominant desktop environments for Linux. The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is the veteran, and loads automatically on most desktop Linux systems (including the SuSE, Mandrake and Caldera distributions). The GNOME desktop is the default for Red Hat and Debian systems. Both are highly configurable, open source, and can each run applications designed for the other quite well."
"This article will help you and your staff get accustomed to KDE. I'll compare functioning in KDE to the Windows desktop, and give you a few tips to make the most of KDE's basic features . . ."
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