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Old 12-02-2012, 08:22 AM   #291
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
I'm afraid this is true. The allegedly traumatizing user interface change going from Windows 7 to Windows 8 is small compared to getting used to Linux -- and the Linux GUI I have been getting used to -- KDE -- is actually supposed to be more Windows-like than the other popular Linux GUI, Gnome.
I'd disagree. I'm not sure how you could claim that going from one mouse-driven Start-button-centric UI to another is more traumatizing than moving from that to a touch-oriented Start-button-less screenful of boxes. The UI paradigms of Windows 7 and KDE (I have KDE on my desktop, Win7 on my laptop) are vastly more similar than those of Windows 7 and Metro; both are simply variations on the universal UI paradigms that have dominated computing since the mid-90s, be it Windows, Mac or Linux.

But if KDE is not to your taste, you might take a look at Zorin OS, a Linux distro which out of the box is nearly indistinguishable from W7, but can also be easily rethemed as Vista, XP, 2K, or Mac OSX.
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