Linux desktop lacks innovation

[Liam Proven]

On Nov 17, 2007 5:28 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Lovely.  I read your article (every word), agreed with much of it, and took
> issue with _one_ item, and you call it uninformed comment.  Well, if my
> comment is uninformed, then it was only based on uninformed sources (ie,
> yours).
> >
> > Name a new desktop GUI that has appeared in the 2000s. Go on. *One*.
>
> Why?  I agreed, I'd like to see some innovation.
>
> > All you ever use - all anyone ever uses - is 1980s tech. ROX and
> > GNUstep are no more 80s than Windows or the Mac.
>
> And I didn't say it was - but _you_ cited the retro 80s look - and I don't
> _want_ an 80s look.
>
> > "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.
>
> I'm shocked!  You represented yourself as a journalist, and then indulge in
> such flagrant misquoting.  I never said that.  I never even said anything
> _close_ to that.  You, sir, are a fraud.
>
> <plonk>

[Laughter]

Right. So let me get this straight.

You say you won't use an 80s desktop.
I point out that I suggested two modern desktops written in the 21st Century.
You say that they'd be too old-fashioned.
I point out that any desktop you use today is based on 80s or at least
mid-90s designs.
And you stomp off in a huff?

This is the cut-and-thrust of modern online discourse in the online
twenty-first century?

I must have missed an announcement, or something.

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