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On Mon, 11 May 2026 23:01:34 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> Think of GNOME as being designed to make refugees from Windows and macOS
> feel at home. Back there they would complain about how every new version
> of the systems would make unwanted changes, and break familiar
> behaviours,
> on a basically take-it-or-leave-it basis.

I'm not a refugee but GNOME never made me feel at home. Luckily I skipped 
Vista and 8 and went directly to 10 from 7. We did have a Windows Server 
version that had the smartphone dash that I avoided.