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Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops?

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Michael Casadevall wrote:
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> I'd like to say that this is a *NIX only problem, but Windows 8 and 10
> also pail in comparison for usability and "getting stuff done" that 7
> had. I've used most of the major desktop operating systems, every
> version of Windows, OS/2, classic Mac OS, OS X from 10.1 to 10.5, and
> even worked professionally on both Debian and Ubuntu and I never
> remember fighting my systems as much to do simple basic things. So I'm
> curious if comp.misc in general agrees with me, or thinks I'm out of my
> mind. If you do agree with me, I'd also like to know why, and what
> you've done about it.

  no, most program interfaces are horrible to me
and getting worse (dumbing down of the desktop so
it can be used by more than people on PCs).

  i have an older machine which doesn't fare well
with a ton of graphics processing.  originally i
liked KDE then it went rogue and i switched to
Gnome just got settled in and used to it and it
too went rogue (i dislike interfaces which assume
things about how i want my desktops laid out and
how things move or react to my actions, but the 
real issue was that the new versions were too 
much for the hardware i'm running).

  using MATE, lightdm and Debian testing/unstable 
and it is doing exactly what i want most of the 
time , but i'm running out of space for working 
on some projects.

  if i'm persistent enough i'll finally upgrade 
this year, but i'll likely stick with MATE.


  songbird

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Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> - 2017-03-12 20:38 -0400
  Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2017-03-13 12:58 +0000
  Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-13 21:03 -0400
    Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> - 2017-03-13 22:31 -0400
      Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-14 23:17 -0400
        Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2017-03-15 07:00 -0500
          Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2017-03-15 11:37 -0400
            Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2017-03-16 08:29 -0500
              Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-03-16 16:22 +0200
            Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2017-03-18 20:02 +0100
              Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-19 19:06 -0400
                Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> - 2017-03-24 12:58 -0400
    Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Pham Nuwen <phamnuwen@example.com> - 2017-03-14 09:50 -0700
  Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-03-14 03:03 -0500
  Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-14 11:47 -0400
  Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2017-03-14 12:42 +0200

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