Gnome replaces Unity

[Bret Busby]

On 15/10/2017, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Liam Proven schreef op 15-10-2017 15:25:
>> On 14 October 2017 at 20:09, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would not use Cinnamon either but for someone who doesn't do a great
>>> deal
>>> with a computer I think it would be better than KDE.
>>
>> I'd probably agree -- _if_ they knew Windows first.
>
> Otherwise they would never have started using a computer.
>

Some of us were around, and, were using computers, before GUI's, and,
in the late 1970's, Star Trek was a game that could be played on an
IBM 1130, by loading about a two or three foot stack of computer
cards, and the Klingon ships (yes, the Klingons were the main enemy,
back in the late 1970's) were represented by the X's displayed on the
screen.

And, programming, as I first encountered it, in the mid 1970's,
involved writing the code on sheets that represented punchcards, to be
sent away to a local company that had a computer, for their people to
input the code, or, we could use a machine that punched one character
into a card, at a time, that involved pressing three buttons
simultaneously, to punch the required holes to represent each
character.

And, when I worked in a bank, in the mid 1970s, as part of the
transactions processing process, after we had balanced the branch's
transactions each day, all of the transactions forms  were taken to a
data processing centre, about 150 miles away, for entry into the
bank's computer database system, and we would get the reports
resulting from all of the bank's transactions, which reports applied
only to the accounts held at our branch, the following business day,
for us to use and deal with those reports. And, none of that, involved
graphics. It was all text based.

Not everyone who uses a computer now, "would never have started using
a computer", without using Windows.

So, generalisations, such as the ones above, to which I am responding,
invalidate themselves and any associated arguments put by the
generalisator.

-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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