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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 17:00:09 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 15:38 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Thu, 09 May 2024 15:10:11 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yeah, Windows Vista had some nice stuff in there. I recall that it had 
> animated wallpapers that I liked a lot, and I was a fan of the widgets. 
> I'm not sure why they retired both. I can still get the former using the 
> AURA Wallpaper service on my computer, but I don't see why it can't be 
> standard on Windows 11. As for the widgets, I don't see why they were 
> removed. They worked, they looked right... I don't see what the problem 
> was.


Maybe they just saw it as "outdated"?
Or maybe it was just removed in 8 to make it more "tablet friendly.."
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