Can you be a Mac AND a Windows Fanboy???
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22 Jan 2008This morning, I woke up, reached for my phone to turn off the alarm, and looked at my unread emails. I sign up for Google Alerts and they tell me when philoking is mentioned around the web.
This morning I woke up to see a list of KDE reviews and my name was the last one with the text:
PhiloKing – Had to include this whinging tantrum from an admitted Mac/Windows fanboy
Wow, that’s pretty harsh. For one, I don’t really think I am a fanboy on any front, the OS Agnostic part of my site means I talk fairly about Linux, Windows and OS X. That’s why I booted up KDE 4 in the first place to take a look. But seriously folks…the point of the article was the default experience with KDE 4 is very bland looking. I absolutely know you can make it shockingly beautiful with Compiz or Beryl, I have used both.
Let’s take a comparative view of them and see what the default experience looks like and which look professional and which don’t.
| Windows Vista | Mac OS X Leopard | KDE 4 |
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So it may not be fair to the one that doesn’t have the billions of R&D money that Microsoft or Apple have, but look at Compiz and Beryl. Those are both open source movements. Why can they both get the polish and pizzaz they have, but KDE 4 looks like OS2 Warp or something.
I don’t find my comments to be a "Whinging Tantrum" just an honest opinion of the default startup state of KDE 4. It needs help folks, it’s boring.
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3 Responses to Can you be a Mac AND a Windows Fanboy???
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January 24th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
[...] Maybe there’s not just room for both, but room for both to do very well. It’s even creating dual fanboys out of some people. [...]
RossB
January 30th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Ok, so that was pretty harsh. Sorry man, from one writer to another. I still don’t agree with the review, though.
I think that the OSS community has done a good job putting together something that is well-done and stable, but we do suffer from trying to be too many things to too many people, hence the slightly boring look you didn’t like.
I don’t feel it’s fair to compare a group effort, even one as massive and polished as KDE 4 with two of the most professional and design-heavy interfaces that exist. I mean, look at the amount of effort put into the different efforts, and the money, and I’d say give KDE4 a break, it’s a damn good result for something that is completely free and extremely modifiable.
You might also want to test KDE4 on various machines, there are some vagaries that affect the Intel integrated video chips, it’s been an issue that requires Intel to fix it, and so far, nothing.
Peace,
RossB
Jason Burns
January 30th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
RossB » I really appreciate the positive and constructive feedback. I agree with your points, I am not at all busting the stability. The point I am making is simply that if Linux is going to make a serious attempt at winning some of the desktop, it’s going to have to get some of that glitz and polish so people think it’s as good. You know as well as I do that some people are oblivious to the under pinnings. If they don’t see the shine and gloss, they will think it’s old.