Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

On 2025-06-09, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2025-06-09 02:38, RonB 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.

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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.

 
Or so you claim.

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And is quite obviously true.

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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Do you see many people deciding they want a car that steers with a joystick?

Which has *what* to do with wanting to change how your desktop works to so
as suit your wishes, and not being held hostage to what some wonk thinks you
*should* want? Some things (like a keyboard and monitor) are necessary, some
things can be customized. Compare the keyboard to the steering wheel,
compare your interaction with the desktop to the placement and design of
your instrument panel or your interaction with your radio and heater/air
conditioning settings — or even the location of gear shift. This is where
choice should be available.

 
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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Bully for you.
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Computers and they're use is obviously a HOBBY for you.

Because I don't want to conform to a wonk, who thinks he knows better,
straight jacket design?

I guess what you're saying is that you like being controlled.

Well "bully for you." It looks like you've picked the right OS. Enjoy.

Choice is good.

 
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.

Again: bully for you!

So much for tolerance of others' choices. Typical, small minded, control
freaks' response.

What exactly is it that attracts you to the Linux newsgroup? A secret
yearning to be free from forced conformity?

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