Re: Distros specifically designed for children

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.