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Re: Very good rant about our loving linux

From Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mint
Subject Re: Very good rant about our loving linux
Date 2026-03-03 09:17 -0800
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>>
>> I'm not one who thinks that a linux should 'look like' Win to a past
>> (or current) Win user who is evaluating a distro.
> 
> But we weren’t talking about you, were we? We were talking about some,
> in your terms, “conventional” user -- whatever that might be.
> 
>> But I do feel that the 'feel' of using the interface should not be
>> 'completely foreign'.
> 
> You have that choice. It can look however you like.
> 
>> People can adapt to change if you don't expect /too much/ from them
>> all at one time.
> 
> You have the choice of how it looks. Linux is all about choice.

Ha.  I'm reminded of the bug/feature saying;

"That's not a bug, that's a feature."

On the one hand, I agree that the linux freedom is wonderful and powerful.

On the other hand, when traveling thru' the woods, people look for a 
'path' - a recognizable trail that they can follow.

'In the beginning' - if someone is coming from another, different OS, 
(which has a GUI desktop, not a commandline) they need to be able to 
find their way around w/o becoming too discombobulated. It doesn't have 
to 'look like Windows' but it has to have some of the same kind of 
'ergonomics' that have been working since the first concept of a 
'desktop' on a terminal screen came along.


-- 
Mike Easter

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