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From: RonB
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 15:31:56 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-29, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> On 2024-05-29 1:38 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 20:19:56 -0400, Joel wrote:
>>
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 09:04:39 -0400, Joel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 01:55:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, because it's [WinXP] a good UI and some stuff still works..from
>>>>>>> what I heard.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Really?? That Fisher-Price toy-style UI was a “good UI”?
>>>>>
>>>>> You could switch it to look mostly like Win2000.
>>>>
>>>> You’re admitting that an even older UI out of the 1990s was
>>>> nicer-looking than XP?
>>>
>>> 2000's UI was a bit enhanced over 9x, actually ...
>>
>> Really?? Now you’re resorting to comparing it with even older, DOS-based
>> Windows to try to make it look good?
>
> Spoken like someone who's never used Windows 2000. That version of
> Windows was spectacular, so Microsoft's decision to base XP on it was a
> smart one. It was stable, fast and it looks better than every Windows
> 95-like Linux desktop environment *to this day*. You're desperately
> trying to bury it, but it is only because you're jealous that a bunch of
> "untalented" programmers managed in 1999 to do something Linux
> developers still can't manage to do twenty-five years later. Not one
> person who looks at a Linux desktop environment today is impressed by
> how it looks. Grab a random, non-technical person from the street and
> show them Linux Mint and Windows 2000 side-by-side, and I promise you
> they would choose to use the latter despite its obsolescence. Switch
> Cinnamon for GNOME and the result would be the same. Your serious
> delusion won't change that fact. None of these people give a flying Snit
> if Mint uses the same kernel as is being used on supercomputers.
I used Windows 2000. It's inferior to Cinnamon, or Mate or Xfce in my
opinion. (Of course these desktops have the advantage of running on top of
Linux.) But I can't quite understand why you run down Linux UIs that look
like the Windows' UI — what is it about Windows 2000's UI that you think is
somehow unique compared to other Windows desktops?
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