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dot.KDE: A User’s Perspective on JuK

‘Juk? What the heck is that?’
‘You really should try it.’
‘But I use XMMS. I love XMMS.’
‘Well, give it a try. It’s sort of like iTunes–a very nice
playlist editor.’
‘Okay, okay…I’ll try it out.’

“And so I did.

“That is approximately how the conversation went a few weeks
back on the #debian-KDE IRC channel. A person there named ‘grepper’
told me to try it. Grepper knew one thing: I like pretty things. In
fact, that is why I like KDE and have since around a year.

“I first experienced it when I got a copy of Debian installed on
my backup machine. From there, I booted up KDE and started to play
around. In about ten seconds flat, I had one of the nicest looking
desktops I had ever seen, and I was hooked…”

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