Re: What is GNOME and Getting some real data on users

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 19:39 +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:38:40 +0100
> Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 02:21 +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote:
> > > I just read an interview with Matthias Ettrich, KDE founder and Qt
> > > developer, see [1]. He said:
> > > 
> > > "A typical GNOME user seems to avoid KDE applications as the devil
> > > avoids holy water. Vice versa, a typical KDE user tends to avoid
> > > Gtk+ or Gnome-based applications.
> > 
> > Maybe this is true for a typical techy fan of one desktop or the
> > other, but I don't think it's true of the typical user, who just
> > doesn't care about the underlying technology.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is this an either/or classification? Is a user either a "techy desktop
> fan" and thus cares about the technology, or a 'typical user' and thus
> cares not?

A typical user has other things to care about than the technological
details.

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