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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 03:14:56 -0000 (UTC)
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On 06 Jun 2025 19:37:52 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> And I'd say that Gonme is the Window Manager which looks the most like a
> smartphone. The younger users having be raised with smartphone before
> having used computer, maybe they are more comfortable with Gnome for
> that reason.

Ironic, isn’t it? Since Microsoft explicitly tried to come up with a 
common UI across desktop and mobile devices with Windows 8, only to suffer 
massive pushback from annoyed users. So it seems GNOME has succeeded where 
Microsoft has failed?