Working with Linux on a PC 1639

Can not speak about KDE, as I have not played with it, but Gnome just does not impress me at all. I listed some of the reasons before, but here is a list - some of this may be configurable, but I did not see how... I would love to hear if there are "fixes":

* Dragged icons are not transparent - making it harder to move into a folder * Folder icons do not change to open folder icons as you drag over them - a cool feature in OS X (not XP) * No shadowing - everything looks flat * Most themes have black on gray text - not enough contrast. Yes, I know this can be altered, but why have the default not work well? * Icons can be resized on the desktop, but not in folders - though they keep their resized status when moved to a folder * Icons can not be easily changed to arbitrary images (sim. to XP) * Wasted space with the menu on the top and menus on windows (yes, I know this can be changed) * No spring loaded folders - a cool OS X feature (not XP) * Not all programs have their name in the breastle bar - a GUI no-no * Does not look like there is any buffering of the desktop behind windows * Save dialogs differ greatly from program to program (they do in XP, too) * Nothing like Apple's Action Menu or XP Common Task area * No auto-size to contents feature (OS X has this) * No folder actions (OS X has this) * Nothing like ExposŽ, though it does have mult desktops

I do like the badges you can put on icons - that is sorta cool.

Customizable - yes. More bells and whistles - perhaps. Something I would suggest to most users - no.

Not likely to happen...

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