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1. Matěj Cepl Máirín

   @mairin I think it means that we went a long long way since Linux GUI was ridiculous and they stayed (for legacy reasons) more or less same.

   about 10 months ago from web at Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic
   • Gustavo Noronha Silva Máirín

     @mairin I would blame it on being very used to something different; I feel that every time I start working on a new environment =)

     about 10 months ago
   • Jesse Keating Máirín

     @mairin that you're used to something different. Mac users feel the same way when trying Windows or Linux.

     about 10 months ago
   • Alison Chaiken Linux Outlaws Podcast , Máirín

     @mairin Same with me. I find rich GUI interfaces (#gnome 3, iPad 2) inscrutable. Branded by CLI in the 1980's, can't change. !lo

     about 10 months ago
   • Osama Khalid Alison Chaiken

     @alisonchaiken, the beauty of most GNU systems regardless of the interface's that a full-featured CLI will exist no matter how the GUI look.

     about 10 months ago
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   • Osama Khalid Alison Chaiken

     @alisonchaiken, that's why I don't think it's accurate to compare GNOME 3 beauty with iPod oversimplification.

     about 10 months ago
   • Jason F. McBrayer Osama Khalid

     @osamak That's actually one thing I like about #Gnome3 vs #Gnome2: incremental move towards tiled window management and groups is CLI-frndly

     about 10 months ago
   • Alison Chaiken Osama Khalid

     @osamak Point taken, but I have no interest in #gnome3, so I switched to #kde instead. De gustibus, etc. #kde more beautiful and more usabl

     about 10 months ago
   • Alison Chaiken Linux Outlaws Podcast , Osama Khalid

     @osamak Beauty of Unix systems is "everything is a file" paradigm and the pipes it allows: earliest level separation in CS: genius. !lo

     about 10 months ago
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