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From: Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Windows 10
Date: 2 Oct 2014 11:13:06 GMT
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On 2014-10-02, Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
> Hils wrote:
>
>> In my XP-using days I used this GPL'ed software, which worked very well:
>>
>> http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> But now a happy Gnome workspace user. :-)
>
> I must be a change-hating old Hector ...
>
> I've use windows from Win2.x days to WinXP, skipped Vista, liked Win7, 
> also used DECwindows, X with Gnome etc over the years, sure they had 
> differences, but generally with time everything improved, and if you 
> could use on, you could use another, I never felt like a fish out of 
> water ... until recently.
>
> With win8 I just *had* to have Start8 to make it usable.  I recently 
> installed a Gnome 3.12 distro, no more minimize icons as here's nowhere 
> to minimize *to*, what?  The activities corner only pops-up half a dozen 
> or so items, beyond that I have to type the name of what I want, why 
> even call it a GUI?  The "explorer" (is it still Nautilus?) doesn't let 
> me see my actual folders, just friendly names like My this, My That, My 
> The other for some of them.
>
> It really does seem that every "modern" desktop is anti-productive.

Couldn't agree more. I've not "upgraded" from Ubuntu 10.04LTS for this very
reason, and am presently looking round for a "traditional desktop
metaphor" distro to upgrade to. Mint, probably.


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