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Subject: Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:48:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-04-18, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 2025-04-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:14:54 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>
>>> The desktops being roughly similar is only a necessity for users who
>>> were already old when they learned MacOS or Windows and did so
>>> stubbornly. Considering how difficult it was for them to adopt that
>>> much, you wouldn't want to put an entirely different operating system in
>>> front of them. For anyone else, a switch from Windows to Gnome or
>>> Cinnamon shouldn't be such a chore.
>>
>> On Linux, “different GUIs” is not the same as “different operating 
>> systems”. Linux offers more variety of GUIs than all the rest of the 
>> computing world put together.
>
> Wont the obsolence of X11 put and end to that?  Many Desktop
> Environments and Window Managers won't work at all on Wayland, from what
> I understand.

Hopefully X11 will be around for a couple more decades. It's getting close 
to two decades since Wayland was first announced and it still doesn't seem 
completely ready to me.

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