Re: Distros specifically designed for children

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.

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..."
I think that for people who don't want to mess with it, Cinnamon is a really good windowing system.
I prefer MATE because its a tad more configurable.
I didn't like raw Gnome. It's better cooked :-)
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