Found a new video in case you guys want to see how it runs.

http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/WinRG.htm

Now we know what to expect from KDE4. Exactly how much money does it take to get a sexy desktop? Most Linux desktops are most of the way there, but just can't find that last 10% that papers over the cracks. Longhorn isn't there yet either, but you know damn well it will be. OSS has got it going under the hood, so why can't I get open source sex appeal?

zz9pluralzalpha: do you mean a desktop that looks nice (which windows isn't), or a program that has a stripper dance on your desktop?

I can live without dancing strippers! Windows doesn't really do it for me either but a lot of people seem to like it, and it's a darn sight better than KDE and GNOME in their default setup. I use Fluxbox, but that's probably a bit too industrial for most plebs. XFCE is quite nice. Most of the major distros beautify the desktop to some extent but I still think MS outdoes them.

Don't like it. Too blue. Ugly.

I agree that GNOME looks too ugly by default. I run Dropline GNOME and it is soo much easier on the eyes. I don't like the blue and green of default Windows XP but it beats the ugliness of default GNOME. Fortunately the distros do pretty it up a bit!

My beef with KDE and Gnome is that they feel like the old DOS GUI shells from the early 90's. Very clunky and awkward.

Granted, I've prettied them up with new icons and themes, but the "feel" of the interface doesn't come off as smooth and natural as Windows.

I dunno, I'm still in love with the idea of having different wallpapers for each desktop I have in KDE (4 right now, I don't think I'll up it any more or I'll lose track of my programs.) So, yeah, I'd say that if you get the right skins for KDE or Gnome, you can make it look better than XP, especially with the transparency for the side bars, the hide buttons so when you hit the edge of the screen, you can choose whether to have the bar hide automatically or manually at the same time (Very useful, I hide my bars manually when I play Caesar 3, then have unhide them and have the autohide take over when I'm not in Caesar 3).

Yes, with all of the extra "features" it will have, they won't slow the system down a bit.

Are you kidding? KDE blows XP (and whatever other windows version) right away. Even worse, I think XP is the worst looking windows ever made....

Gnome does look a little less.. But still better than XP

But hey, after all this is just a matter of taste, right? One cannot argue about that (or so I've been told )

I tested longhorn a little while ago. It was version 4053. Don't get excited about that look in those screenshots though, as they use the plex theme. MS replaced the plex theme in the new releases. I think it looks better though, it's kind of a slate color, but it doesn't support legacy apps(dos and win9x)

Woops messed up, aero is the window manager, plex was the color theme

Now that's got to be the dumbest thing Microsoft does, it has its own code, yet it decides to make it obsolete instead of letting people use the older programs that havn't been updated because they went under. Or just old programs, like Wolfenstein 3d, which is a game I love, but can no longer play in XP because there's no sound. Nor can I play Stunts, Test Drive 3, or any of those quality games. But no Win9x programs? That's just low.... Apparenly MS has no idea how much software there is for Win95/8 that hasn't been redone for XP. I wonder if programs built for NT4.0 will run....

Longhorn doesn't looks great to me.

check out Dosbox. It's a Dos emulator for both Windows and Linux and runs great, made specially to run games. Sound, joypads, everything is emulated as well (that's right, you can use any joypad, even USB with Dos games through Dosbox. Wolf3D is fully supported by the way...

It has a really neat game support and, although a bit slow, I'm quite happy playing Commander Keen, Prince of Persia and Out of this world once again

It's all in blue for one simple reason. Not to see another blue screen too fast