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Since Kubuntu decided to change the default file manager from Konqueror to Dolphin, there's been a lot of flaming online.  Let me start by saying I understand why they did it and I agree.  The (K)Ubuntu teams have made some odd choices and frankly Konqueror was one of them.  People used to complain that it was a bad choice as a default web browser, which isn't really true; people just needed to get used to it.  But before Dolphin came along, the most common complaint about Konqueror was that it was too complicated.  People make the same complaint about KDE, in

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I've done everything I can to free myself from the evil clutches of Microsoft. I use a different operating system. I use a different office suite. I use a different web browser. Even at work, where we're forced to use Windows, I still use Firefox and OpenOffice. And I'm going to start bringing in my Linux laptop to get a breath of fresh air.

Even my company's website avoids Windows as much as possible. The site is hosted on Linux and I got my IT guy to install Dreamweaver so we could avoid Windows and Frontpage. Meanwhile 65% of our visitors use Internet Explorer, but that's ok because the web guy and I found CSS code that looks roughly the same whether you're using Firefox or IE.

And then IE 7 came along. And broke our website.

People online are saying that this is the biggest thing since the original graphical web browser came out in 1994--a year before Windows 95!  (The original graphical web browser was Mosaic and was created by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Interestingly, this is the same place HAL 9000 was supposedly created in the movie 2001.)  

Linux and Windows have fought two battles on my desktop in the past few days. One Windows won one, and the other was a tie.

That's right, Hanukah.  Yelena & I have updated our wish lists for the new holiday season.  So, buy us lots of stuff.

(The truth is it was hard to think of anything to put on our lists because we've already got everything we need.  I guess we're pretty lucky.)