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On 2025-06-06 11:18, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> Le 04-06-2025, Tyrone <none@none.none> a écrit :
>>
>> Only because everyone expects a "Unix" system to be ugly and obtuse.
>>
>> It sounds like you are confusing the GUI with the underlying OS.
> 
> Read the first sentence I let again. And tell me you are not
> confusing a Unix system with a GUI in the second sentence. Because the
> ugly part can only be about the GUI. Which is not ugly if you don't want
> it to be ugly. Unlike Apple who decide for you how you must use your
> computer, Linux can look like anything you want.
> 

What so many of you fail to understand is that most people don't WANT to 
make things "look like anything [they] want".

They want consistency and usability.