If I wanted to use a Windows-style UI, but with a similar performance hit to using JS and DHTML and so on, I'd be using KDE on Linux.
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If I wanted to use a Windows-style UI, but with a similar performance hit to using JS and DHTML and so on, I'd be using KDE on Linux.