My first DontZap use case while testing F11 beta

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 14 22:20:06 UTC 2009


psmith wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> I'm confused here. He was attempting to restart the entire machine,
>>> and instead restarted the X server, and this is considered a
>>> significant problem?
>>>     
>>
>> Yes because control alt del calls up the task manager in Windows in
>> recent versions and even initiating a reboot, you get a prompt for
>> confirmation and applications get time to save data.
>>   
> 
> well there we have it! another who wants fedora to behave like it's
> written by m$, and i thought the redmond theme was as close as fedora
> would get to windows :(

I was explaining to Arthur the difference between zapping X in Linux vs
rebooting in Windows.  That difference in user experience explains why
it is important to not equate the two things together.  This has nothing
to do with wanting Fedora to be like Windows.

Rahul







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