[Tfug] Why GNOME was the stupidest idea in Linux history...

[Matthew Patenaude]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bowie, you're saying two different things here that don't make sense:
>
> 1) There's something fundamentally wrong with the Windows user interface.
>
> Guess what?  For most users, that's just not true.  Microsoft's
> failure isn't in the user interface, it's in the "guts" below that:
> security and stability issues galore.  The whole thing is one big
> "binary blob" and we know where that leads.
>
> I didn't abandon Windows due to the user interface.  I abandoned it so
> my lappy wouldn't get possessed by the evil spawn of some Ukrainian
> gangster's semi-geek nephew.
>
> 2) The MacOS user interface is better than Gnome or KDE.  Or even
> Windows for chrissakes.
>
> Bowie, I dare you to try just one thing: re-size the fonts in the
> basic OS pulldown menus.  Oh gee, you CAN'T, can you?  I know a guy
> over 70 years old running Leopard who's getting serious eyestrain
> issues.
>
> That's just one example of it being the most inflexible turd of a desktop
> EVER.
>
> Don't even get me started on one-button mice.
>
> Basically, if you don't like it Steve Jobs' way, tough.  Yeah, at
> least you can buy a different mouse...but too much other stuff is
> locked down tighter than the meds in a prison mental ward.
>
> Ghaaaa.
>
> Jim
>
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Seriously, sounds like Bowie needs a few more "Cheers". Ha!

All I know is that my Ubuntu is so far and above more usable than XP ever
thought about being, and I really have never been an anti-XP person. So
maybe there could be another way to do things than a windowing system, but
your average user is not going to see any difference in basic usage between
any of the above mentioned systems. Sorry. I am speaking from the viewpoint
of most of the folks I have either gotten to change over, or failed to get
to make the step; not from my own point of view necessarily.

And if any OS tries to do without a windowing system along similar lines,
they will never be adopted by any normal computer user, since most of them
freak out at the least bit of change; no matter how much you stress that the
change is mostly just cosmetic.

I like OSX, actually, but I am not sure why I would be so much happier with
it than I am now.

Matthew
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