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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 5 Stand-Out LibreOffice Features That Make It My Go-To Office
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On 2024-10-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-10-18 à 03 h 13, RonB a écrit :
>> On 2024-10-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> Le 2024-10-17 à 03 h 16, rbowman a écrit :
>>>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:24:11 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think, sometimes, when you're selling a product (rather than releasing
>>>>> it as open source) there's pressure to change SOMETHING because it has
>>>>> to be different in order to separate it from the earlier version. The
>>>>> interface should stay the same — what they should do is just keep fixing
>>>>> the software and only add features people really want. That's the way to
>>>>> NOT get bloatware.
>>>>
>>>> FOSS isn't immune to the 'we've got to change something' trap. Unity comes
>>>> to mind.
>>>
>>> I never thought that Unity was all that bad. If anything, its mere
>>> existence forced the developers of other desktop environments to improve
>>> their work, at least as far as aesthetics are concerned. I believe that
>>> the more competition there is, the better each product becomes.
>> 
>> The whole concept of Unity was to be a "one size fits all" solution for
>> desktops/laptops, tablets and smartphones. I never bought into that as you
>> use these platforms differently. Microsoft tried the same thing with Windows
>> 8, and it was also a failure.
>> 
>> I went away from Gnome when Gnome 3 came out. I think that's when Linux Mint
>> really started to climb in popularity. Mate was a reaction to Gnome 3, and
>> Mint's own Cinnamon came along a bit later. Both are related to Gnome, but
>> radically different and much more "traditional."
>> 
>> But choice is good. A lot of people like Gnome and that's fine. Just not
>> something I like at all.
>
> The absolute disgust with Gnome 3 was what drove me to drive it out. I 
> had to see if it was as bad as people claimed that it was. Honestly, in 
> its initial state, you could tell that they had some clever ideas but 
> that they hadn't all been properly implemented yet. However, by the time 
> Gnome 3.28 (I believe) came out, things were pretty good. I wouldn't use 
> it myself today, but it's only because they have subscribed to Marxism 
> and seem intent on destroying themselves.

I don't like the fact that, by default, there's no panel or minimize button 
— and I hate tiling or snapping windows. I guess I'm set in my ways, but I'm 
used to a familiar desktop UI and I don't want something foreign to it for 
the sake of using something different.

I realize other people like Gnome and that's what's good about Linux. Lots of 
choices for different tastes. Fortunately I don't have to use Gnome to use 
Linux.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien