Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

On 2025-06-09, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2025-06-06, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2025-06-06 11:18, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 04-06-2025, Tyrone <none@none.none> a écrit :

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Only because everyone expects a "Unix" system to be ugly and obtuse.
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It sounds like you are confusing the GUI with the underlying OS.

 
Read the first sentence I let again. And tell me you are not
confusing a Unix system with a GUI in the second sentence. Because the
ugly part can only be about the GUI. Which is not ugly if you don't want
it to be ugly. Unlike Apple who decide for you how you must use your
computer, Linux can look like anything you want.
 

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What so many of you fail to understand is that most people don't WANT to
make things "look like anything [they] want".
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They want consistency and usability.

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Or so you claim. And yet that's one the common complaints about Windows —
that it puts its users in a straight jacket, without the ability to
customize the desktop. Linux proves that people LIKE choice, that's why
there's a dozen (or so) desktops, often customized in completely different
ways.
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What you mean is Mac users want "conformity" and that's fine for them. I
don't like Mac OS because its developers think they know best how I should
want to use my computer. I don't like my computer controlling me, I want to
control it.
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As far as usability goes, I find the usability is better in Linux than in
the Mac or Windows. It works how I want it to work.
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I use Windows at work, and it isn't consistent.  The top title bar
differs from program to program, decorations are different depending on
whether I'm using Outlook, Adobe or Firefox.

File open and save dialogs also seem to differ and ways to access the
filesystem from said dialogs differ.