Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On 2025-05-29, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 29/05/2025 13:11, Borax Man wrote:

On 2025-05-28, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

The user matters.  The whole point of the OS, of all this endeavour, is
to serve the user, and allow the user to do what they want.

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Sadly, if one is Poettering or the Gnome team, the OS exists to force
the user to do things the way "the team" wants them to do things.  That
whole crew should have been run out of town on rails a very long time
ago.

 
This seems to be a more and more common sentiment.  The developer has an
image, and that is paramount.  The user is stupid and should go with
their vision, and if the user doesn't want to, they're just backwards
shlubs who reject change and want to stay in the past, etc, etc.

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Contrast Mint (Mate)
"Oh fuck, gnome is a POS, but its the only toolkit we have, so lets
build something that runs on GTK that works and is what people want..."
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I think that for people who don't want to mess with it, Cinnamon is a
really good windowing system.
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I prefer MATE because its a tad more configurable.
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I didn't like raw Gnome. It's better cooked :-)
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Cinnamon is great, and Linux Mint deserves the success it has had.

I've gotten people onto it, and it works, is predictable.

Experimental GUI's are all fine and good, but what GNOME did is just
decide to change the existing one.  This shows a lack of disregard for
the user, and the users habits and workflows.

By all means, experiment, offer new things, but don't break the users
workflow!