I got an ADSL connection last week, but as my operating system was not supported, I was left to configure it myself. After around 12 hours fighting with my network interface card, I gave up, plugged-in another hd and installed an old copy of windows on it so that I could at least get the connection working via USB and read my e-mails. And so for two days I was kind of forced to use Windows 2000. Using it was not very pleasant, but in the end it was a good thing: it reminded me how great KDE is.
Seriously, I can't imagine how can anyone survive without "gg:", "wp:" or using the "Run command..." dialog as a simple calculator... Firefox is a nice browser, but is way too slow when compared to Konqueror or IE, and the lack of an "up" button is very irritating (ok, you can use an extension for adding one, but when I tried that the whole program simply stopped working). Thunderbird is a pain to use if you ever used KMail... And I can't imagine how people can use IM not using Kopete... I missed also a lot of other programs, like Konsole and its tabs and JuK, but, interestingly enough, what I missed most were those small details that only KDE has.
