Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Artix Linux and Xlibre Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:54:45 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <20250811155445.00002c77@gmail.com> References: <1063lgp$jmj$2@reader1.panix.com> <1063ruo$2kgsj$3@dont-email.me> <10640fb$1gqnn$2@dont-email.me> <106411i$2l2gd$3@dont-email.me> <10646dg$1gqnn$3@dont-email.me> <1064ag9$1kvkq$1@dont-email.me> <1064m75$1lvr1$1@dont-email.me> <10667je$35rkf$2@dont-email.me> <106bdkb$2s14s$1@dont-email.me> <106bjgj$2t9mq$5@dont-email.me> <106cld0$33q3n$2@dont-email.me> <106l5kp$133ed$3@dont-email.me> <106ohbv$1q0ne$1@dont-email.me> <106olee$1r0v9$1@dont-email.me> <106v28o$3889m$1@dont-email.me> <20250806092812.00002de9@gmail.com> <6897438e$0$16825$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <20250811112646.00004f89@gmail.com> <20250811151905.000075ea@gmail.com> <107dqpb$2sqrk$10@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="20ddcf5c134940fbb46751ed8a0f4557"; logging-data="3030990"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+J0Nbf/x8weNUs+XvB2gcsO7F8MVVO/5w=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:6fzrA+owxTAAeOqdVMBO98M4LBA= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70819 On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:27:55 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > But I thought *Metro* was supposed to be the Universal Good-For- > > What-Ails-Ya Future Of Everything Forever...! > > There you go. You were complaining about open-source folks supposedly > trying to impose some kind of UI uniformity on their users when they > were doing no such thing. And you completely missed the proprietary > companies who *were* indeed trying to do that. Not at all - I'm perfectly free to mock the folly of autocratic Design Divas wherever I see it. But while MS has had no shortage of abortive attempts to replace their core frameworks over the years, I've yet to hear anything quite so Marshall Applewhite-y in the way they *talk* about them, which was specifically what struck me funny.