Surely it doesn't matter what the DE is then? My mum adjusted from Windows XP (when that was current) to Ubuntu 14-ish fairly easily, by simply remembering "switch it on and then click on the big swirly fox thing".
Surely it doesn't matter what the DE is then? My mum adjusted from Windows XP (when that was current) to Ubuntu 14-ish fairly easily, by simply remembering "switch it on and then click on the big swirly fox thing".
> Surely it doesn't matter what the DE is then?
It matters a lot if you deviate from the ones that (are set to) behave in a similar way.
"Click the big orange blob" is pretty universal.
Although I guess one of the reasons I dislike KDE is because it's so random, unintuitive, and unfamiliar.
Ubuntu comes with a dock which is close enough to Windows.
The comment chain you're replying to is arguing that vanilla GNOME is too different, and they're right.