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From: =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr>
Subject: Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?
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Le 06-06-2025, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> a écrit :
> 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".

I know that, that was another of my messages when I said distros don't
want to push their vision to users. But here it wasn't the subject. The
subject was confusing the GUI and the system. And to chose something
ugly and complaining about ugliness.

> They want consistency and usability.

They can have it. A lot of distros comes with a lot of default choices that
suit a lot of different people.

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