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@Dietrich T. Schmitz, Your Linux Advocate

Only problem with GNOME is that it loses some friendliness and familiarity with Windows users. Even though it's plenty flexible, it doesn't really give the best experience for first time users. It's as if the flexibility was an excuse not to polish up the default settings.

. . . and you know what? Netbooks are $300 and have 1 GB of memory. Why in the world would anybody in their right mind still be using a machine with 512 MB or less memory?

You might as well be talking about still using 486's. I could care less about 512 MB machines anymore.
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