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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need
 the greatest PC software available
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 15:10:11 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 12:01 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Thu, 09 May 2024 06:47:55 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 08:27:04 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>> 
>>> I think the most common complaint of people using Linux CLI or GUI
>>> tools is that they look dated.
>> 
>> Are they taking Microsoft, of all people, as arbiters of good taste?
>
> There are definitely more people out there who are fans of the Microsoft 
> aesthetics than there are people who appreciate the dated interfaces of 
> open-source software. All of them will admit that the "ugly" software 
> still does the job, but it appears that the way a program looks is as 
> important as whether it completes the task.


I'll admit I did like WinAero.
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