(Disclaimer: I run OpenSUSE from my external HDD when I need Linux (not often), just updated to 11.2 and graphics performance (my reason for using Windows) improved alot!)
A week ago I needed to do two presentations with my project group about the work we did in the minor program ‘Language and Speechtechnology’ in which I am currently enrolled.
After an introduction in LaTeX during the evenings in the appartment during this years’ CeBIT (Thanks Stefan Majewsky & Felix Lemke) I decided to write all my documents in LaTeX, the sheets for the presentation I created using Beamer.
My project group does not know what LaTeX is and they said: “that’s convenient, a progress bar in you presentation PDF’s”. One of the guys then opened the PDF in Adobe Reader and did not see the progress and was asking why that was. I told the guy (who has a bit of a grudge against KDE) that presentation progress is a function in Okular which AR does not have. The rest of the group then said: “Let’s do the presentation using your laptop and Okular!”
It’s just one of those small examples, slowly but surely these guys are getting more in favor of KDE and when I reboot into OpenSUSE they can work with it without problems (both physical and emotional 
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It is my way of getting people to use KDE, replace the stuff on the bottom (KWrite instead of notepad, Okular instead of AR, Kolourpaint instead of mspaint). These applications are really similar across platforms and people get excited when they start to notice the small differences and want to try other KDE software as well!
…Then when they least expect it, wipe over their c: partition with Gentoo, sit back and watch the fun! \o/
Re your last paragraph: This reminds me of something a Qt engineer said about how people come to love Qt.
> World domination starts with QString.
I so agree
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