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From: Chris Ahlstrom
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: My 138 $ Amazon order ( for 6pm today ).
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 13:56:57 -0400
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Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> On Sat, 11 May 2024 07:25:15 +0000, RonB wrote:
>
>> On 2024-05-10, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>> On Fri, 10 May 2024 16:33:51 +0000, RonB wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2024-05-09, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2024-05-08 6:06 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 12:04:28 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> At least Windows doesn't display non-working app menu items, as
>>>>>>>> Linux used to do a LOT. Click them and nothing happens.
>>>>>>>> Resolving them was FAR more troublesome than the Registry fix I
>>>>>>>> showed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When was 'used to do'? 1998?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Actually, DFS showed this to be the case recently, and many times
>>>>>> over the last few years. This is not an old problem; it's a problem
>>>>>> Linux distributions have yet to iron out. The lack of polish is very
>>>>>> noticeable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Name the offending apps, please.
>>>>
>>>> In other words, they don't look like Windows' apps.
>>>>
>>>> That's all surface. More of DFS' GUI obsession.
>>>
>>> It's not a matter of looking like Windows apps; it's that they often
>>> look like something made by a blind 12-year-old. They ARE often ugly,
>>> and there is really no denying that. However, they _do_ the job, and
>>> that's what they should be evaluated on.
>>
>> I'm denying that they're ugly. What applications are you talking about?
>> Maybe it's only the ones I don't use.
>
> I already mentioned a few to Chris Ahlstrom like Calibre, GIMP and
> Handbrake. Since I'm not using the system at this moment, I can't come up
> with more yet.
I still disagree about GIMP, though. Not ugly, just complex.
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