OT war story / whine: more Windows 8 adventures (fwd)

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

[more censored communicatino from DCB]

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From: David Collier-Brown <davec-b-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Cc: James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:53:35 -0400
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: OT war story / whine: more Windows 8 adventures
Reply-To: davecb-0XdUWXLQalXR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org

On 08/22/2013 02:30 PM, James Knott wrote:
> D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> PS: maybe there is a disease going around.  I find Ubuntu 13.04 and
>> Fedora 19 update GUIs much worse than their predecessors'.  So I just
>> use the text-base commands.
> I run openSUSE and run KDE4 in KDE3 mode.  I hate that new desktop
> that's default in KDE4.  I guess the developers think fluff is more
> important than function.
>
Everyone wanted to try an user interface experiment at the same time,
thereby losing a LOVELY opportunity to move disgusted Windows users to
one of the more GUI-friendly Linuxes.

Thus far I'm using none of them, waiting for the market to shake out the
no-hopers.

--dave

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