The success of Chromebooks and tablets and the migration of Apple, Google and Microsoft to cloud based systems means a specific GUI is less important than in the past. People still need a GUI and everyone has their favourite and not so favourite. Where the GUI and the browser come into play (aside from performance) is whether or not they have the apps, extensions and features that you use.
There are two trends, convergence and divergence. Some like Microsoft and Canonical are pursuing convergence with the same interface on all of its platforms and devices. Others like Apple and Google (to a lesser extent) have not embraced that and have a different look and feel on the computer from on their devices.
Roy
On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:15:06 PM, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:52:19PM +0200, highskywhy@yahoo.de wrote:
>
>
> GUI/Linux
>
>
> Di Apr 22 15:50:03 2014
>
>
> good afternoon
> a lot of users discuss
> ubuntu
> xubuntu or better kubuntu.
>
> what is the difference?
>
> the gui?
>
Yes. Ubuntu uses Unity, Xubuntu used XFCE (hence the X in the name) and
Kubuntu uses KDE.
> why is the gui important?
Mostly a matter of personal taste and your individual workflow. All 3 of
the GUIs I've mentioned also do other things--like Windows, they have
printer installation programs, networking configuration programs, and so
on.
>
> firefox or thunderbird or gimp
> or gedit.
>
> using for files: mc.
>
> why is it important to use
> SuSe oder Gentoo oder Ubuntu?
>
> Isn t it the same?
Pretty much. I use FreeBSD at work, and my workflow is mostly terminals
and browsers, so I could probably use just about anything.
Much of the time, people support a particular distribution just because of
their personal taste. I'm not very familiar with SuSE, but Gentoo is liked
by people who don't mind doing a lot of command line work and Ubuntu is
liked by those who want something that they can just install and use.
(That is an EXTREMELY generalized statement on my part, but generally,
Gentoo requires some reading and configuring to get running smoothly and
Ubuntu, in theory at least, is just install and use.
--
Scott Robbins
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>
>
> GUI/Linux
>
>
> Di Apr 22 15:50:03 2014
>
>
> good afternoon
> a lot of users discuss
> ubuntu
> xubuntu or better kubuntu.
>
> what is the difference?
>
> the gui?
>
Yes. Ubuntu uses Unity, Xubuntu used XFCE (hence the X in the name) and
Kubuntu uses KDE.
> why is the gui important?
Mostly a matter of personal taste and your individual workflow. All 3 of
the GUIs I've mentioned also do other things--like Windows, they have
printer installation programs, networking configuration programs, and so
on.
>
> firefox or thunderbird or gimp
> or gedit.
>
> using for files: mc.
>
> why is it important to use
> SuSe oder Gentoo oder Ubuntu?
>
> Isn t it the same?
Pretty much. I use FreeBSD at work, and my workflow is mostly terminals
and browsers, so I could probably use just about anything.
Much of the time, people support a particular distribution just because of
their personal taste. I'm not very familiar with SuSE, but Gentoo is liked
by people who don't mind doing a lot of command line work and Ubuntu is
liked by those who want something that they can just install and use.
(That is an EXTREMELY generalized statement on my part, but generally,
Gentoo requires some reading and configuring to get running smoothly and
Ubuntu, in theory at least, is just install and use.
--
Scott Robbins
PGP keyID EB3467D6
( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
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