From kde-core-devel Fri Aug 15 17:31:07 2003 From: "Kurt Pfeifle" Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:31:07 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: OT: Siemens sees Linux desktops at 20% of market by X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=106096879400512 Rolf Magnus wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2003 18:37, Kurt Pfeifle wrote: > > >> "Siemens has no 'religious' attachment to a particular distro >> or desktop environment. Before settling on Ximian, Siemens >> evaluated plain vanilla Gnome and KDE as well. Siemens found >> KDE to be more 'Windows-like' than Gnome, but that lead to >> problems when non-technical users expected a more Windows-like >> experience. Gnome, particularly Ximian's version, was 'different >> enough" to set user expectations that the experience would be >> less like Windows, which led to fewer adoption problems.'" > > > I don't fully understand that. I had pointed earlier to that referenced study and asked for an invitation of the Siemens people who had been conducting the quoted study to present it at Nove Hrady. But there seems to have been too little interest by enough KDE contributors to make it really happen. Or there was no money for an invitation. > They prefer Gnome for "non-technical" users, > because those are more familiar with Windows and KDE is more similar to > Windows than Gnome? Or do they mean that those users are sick of Windows and > want something that looks "different enough"? They seem to have found this: * users initially accept KDE very quickly because it looks more like Windows. * this makes users more likely to think it *is* like Windows in concept and in many details. * when users find out it is different, they start objecting to the change. I don't know by which factual backup this thesis is supported. We don't have access to it. Maybe we should politely ask for it? (Some voices I heard also suggested this argument may just be a justifcation to support the pre-judices of the people responsible for the study...) Cheers, Kurt