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

[Tyler Nienhouse]

I would like to add that KDE and GNOME only look/work like windows if you
choose to customize it that way.

On 04/29/2009, 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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