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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:36:52 -0000 (UTC)
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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.