Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later

On 2025-04-18, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:50:33 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:49:13 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
 

Change for the sake of change is silly.

 
Never seen that happen in the Linux world, that I can recall. Nobody is
able to push their ideas onto the community without the latter’s
consent.

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When Canonical introduced the Unity desktop a good portion of the
community defected to other distros. Given the timing it looked
suspiciously like Metro envy.

The "one size fits all" GUI that Windows and Ubuntu was trying to push on
their customers was stupid. A smartphone and a tablet are used differently
than a desktop or laptop. I remember seeing the ads for Windows 8 where a
person is sitting at a desk, keyboard and mouse in front of him or her and,
instead of using the mouse (or keyboard) they awkwardly reach across the
desk and tap the screen. With the Windows tablets their ads were showing off
add-on membrane keyboards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=des3dpKtfIM

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