Revisiting KDE

I’m sending in my Powerbook to have the Firewire port fixed today, so I’ve gone back to using Windows (office) and Linux (home) for a while. It is an interesting experiment; using KDE again after being on OSX for six months gives me a new appreciation of both systems. Obviously, KDE seems unpolished when compared to Aqua, but it’s still a very cool desktop. I could probably live full-time in KDE if there was a better Office replacement for Linux. (Maybe one from Microsoft itself?)

I’ve also been toying around with the new Evolution beta, and it is slick! I’d really like to see Ximian’s Exchange connector at work with this, it seems like it would do about 75% of what Outlook does (which seems to be what most enterprise users need anyway). Still, I don’t think it is as good as Entourage in OSX. (I really miss Applescript!)

January 13, 2003 | Archived in GNU/Linux, Random Notes