Linux desktop lacks innovation

[Liam Proven]

On Nov 16, 2007 12:53 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>
> > On Nov 14, 2007 5:03 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Interesting.  And I'd really like to try some non-Windows clones, but
> >> going
> >> back to an 80's look & feel????  I don't think so.  And I'm not giving up
> >> konqueror :-)
> >
> > Glad you like it. I can't stand Konqui myself.
> >
> > But anyway. Who said anything about going back to the 80s? ROX and
> > GNUstep are both perfectly modern GUIs.
>
> Er, you did.  When you talked about ROX having an 80s look.  I remember the
> 80s.  There's nothing about that decade that I want to remember, prior to
> November 1989.

See, this is what I mean about uninformed comment.

Name a new desktop GUI that has appeared in the 2000s. Go on. *One*.

All you ever use - all anyone ever uses - is 1980s tech. ROX and
GNUstep are no more 80s than Windows or the Mac. OS X is NeXTstep,
betaed 1987, released 88-89, with much tweaking to resemble MacOS,
released '84. Windows 95 is a 1985 OS with a Mac-like facelift to make
it a bit more modern from 12y ago. Vista is a facelift of that.

"I won't use something from the 80s" indeed. What drivel. You'd better
get an abacus then, 'cos the alternative is a command line, and that's
from the 1960s.


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