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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need
 the greatest PC software available
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 20:00:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 12:52 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On Tue, 14 May 2024 01:50:13 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 00:25 this Sunday (GMT):
>>> On Sat, 11 May 2024 14:16:18 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, 10 May 2024 17:33:22 +0000, RonB wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2024-05-09, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 09 May 2024 06:47:55 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 08:27:04 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I think the most common complaint of people using Linux CLI or
>>>>>>>>> GUI tools is that they look dated.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Are they taking Microsoft, of all people, as arbiters of good
>>>>>>>> taste?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are definitely more people out there who are fans of the
>>>>>>> Microsoft aesthetics than there are people who appreciate the dated
>>>>>>> interfaces of open-source software. All of them will admit that the
>>>>>>> "ugly" software still does the job, but it appears that the way a
>>>>>>> program looks is as important as whether it completes the task.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I don't admit it. And I don't like the Windows "aesthetic." I do
>>>>>> find it a bit amusing that Windows' users simultaneously claim that
>>>>>> 1) Linux copies the Windows desktop and 2) It has a dated interface.
>>>>>
>>>>> Both are true, 1) Linux indeed copies features and aesthetics of both
>>>>> Windows and Mac OS but 2) does a very poor job of getting it right,
>>>>> in my cases. The lack of consistency is very noticeable, and you'll
>>>>> have something like the default desktop of Ubuntu which looks
>>>>> incredible...
>>>>> until you open up a program which doesn't fit with the overall look
>>>>> at all.
>>>> 
>>>> Like Microsoft's own system apps that revert to some old-style GUI
>>>> rather than the flat-ass Win 10+ interface?
>>>> 
>>>> Or applications that provide their own window decoration no matter
>>>> what OS they're on?
>>>
>>> To be fair, no one uses Windows' system apps. WordPad's lack of use, in
>>> particular, is a shame. It really was more than most people needed.
>> 
>> Notepad usually filled that need.. and it was the default. Though a
>> random fun fact, WordPad is stored in Win32, making it technically a
>> system-required app.
>
> Yet it is no longer going to be loaded onto computer using new Windows 11 
> versions. I presure people will still be able to install it through the 
> Optional System Components or whatever it is called, but it won't be there 
> by default. You'll need to use the online office.com suite instead. It is 
> better, but your documents are stored on Microsoft's servers, and you need 
> to be online to use it... as far as I know.


I'm sorry /what/.
They're /removing notepad/?!
That is the STUPIDEST THING THEY COULD DO!
Absolutely ridiculous... how are you supposed to edit text files without
wifi then??
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