to me it looks just like my missus's copy of XP. I dont know why we need linux to act/look like windows?! It's not windows and never will be. And thats not me microsoft bashing I just think that learning linux in general is quite an uphill task for a beginner without making them think its the same.
It depends on who you're aiming it at.
People don't like change and an awful lot of people will be and are put off by their first "
hmm... I want to do X but I can't do it like windows moment".
Now you can say "
well they shouldn't be using linux then", and if that's your opinion then that is your opinion, but like it or not the stronger linux becomes in market share the better and more quickly it will develop.
In the long hall though I feel people should move away from the windows look. But then again, the Windows look makes sense just as any other.
Aye it's true that there's a certain amount of "
you must not like windows style", even if it is what works best for you.
Which is daft IMO.
This did my head in trying to get this uploaded. It just kept bombing out on the upload. I ended up having to setup my email addy on it and email it to my main machine to upload.
Was it a repository issue? I did say it doesn't have commercial backing (like k/ubuntu, Mandriva and most of the rest) as it's entirely community based, and it can occasionally be slightly iffy (there's a $25 a year sub one too which is likely better).
One of the problems is the main version is the 2007 version was released about a year ago now, which of course will more or less fully update, but it will be quite an update (the full 2008 release will be out in the next month or two apparently).
The minime2008 is out (which is a stripped down version to build up) and the Gnome2008 as well (although I've never tried it).
Although the current Mandriva
is now miles ahead of where the then current Mandriva
was when PCLinuxOS2007 was released a year ago.
The really weird thing about linux at the moment is that there seems to be a sort of self-selection to Ubuntu being the only choice for beginners, which I don't think will be good for anyone in the longer term.