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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 21:23:43 +0100
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On 28/05/2025 20:26, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/28/25 09:43, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 28/05/2025 17:22, Rich 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Poettering has found his true position in life: He now works for 
>> Microsoft.
> 
> 
> I agree about Poettering but great thing about GNU/Linux 
> distributions is that you do not have to use softwarer you don't
> like.  Also KDE is painful for the users as they are apt to produce
> the next version before the full system has been worked out. But I
> started with the AmigaOS and KDE lets me come close to the same 
> workflow.
I have bitten the bullet with systemd not because it is in any way 
superior, but because all distros are moving towards it and the bugs are 
being ironed out and its just become as new standard.

I never liked X-windows or PostScript either. Or X.400 or X.25.

A printer that needed more processing power than the computer it was 
attached to seemed like an obscenity to me


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