From: thorongil@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Monday 24 June 2013 22:47, sctvguy1 conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > Aragorn wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Monday 24 June 2013 06:30, Mat Nieuwenhoven conveyed the following   
   >> to alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
   >>   
   >>> [...]   
   >>> Anyway, I don't like that the user interface on Linuxes changes ever   
   >>> faster. Why can't it stay the same for 10+ years? That at least is   
   >>> one plus point for Windows XP, [...]   
   >>   
   >> Windows XP is EOL, and the user interface of Microsoft Windows has   
   >> been different with every new release.  And let's not even get into   
   >> the GUI for Windows 8. ;-)   
      
   > Aragorn, the GUI pretty much stayed the same from Windows 95, NT4,   
   > Windows 98, and Windows 2000.   
      
   Yes, but Windows XP had a different interface, and Windows Vista   
   introduced an even more different interface, and Windows 7 is even more   
   different, and Windows 8 is even more different, and - as I have read   
   recently - the upcoming Windows 8.1 will be even more different,   
   returning to the classic desktop paradigm with a taskbar and a "Start"   
   button.   
      
   > I used to have Windows 2000 Professional on my OS/2 Boot Manager list,   
   > just for those times when I needed it because of my schools constant   
   > use of Word for all documents!  Other than that, it was OS/2 all the   
   > time until 2009, when I went for Mint "Gloria" KDE then to PCLOS KDE.   
      
   On account of KDE, I don't think that it has changed so much over the   
   years.  Yes, the widgets are a little different and it has evolved, but   
   it has done so gradually over the years.  I am running KDE4 now, and   
   some things are different from KDE3, but not to the extent where it   
   becomes hard to use, nor to the extent that you cannot get a similar   
   look & feel anymore as you used to have.   
      
   GNOME on the other hand, I agree, has changed a lot.  But then again,   
   the GNOME developers don't care much for consistency, nor for user-   
   friendliness.  Linus Torvalds himself has already chastised the GNOME   
   team over that on two separate occasions, and as I understand it, he is   
   currently using KDE4 because he hates GNOME3.   
      
   I don't think too many other GUIs on GNU/Linux have changed radically   
   over the years ever since I started using GNU/Linux myself.   
   Enlightenment, yes, but you can tune that to your liking and get   
   whatever look & feel from it you want.  But the plain window managers   
   such as BlackBox/FluxBox and WindowMaker, or desktops like XFCE and LXDE   
   also still pretty much look the same.   
      
   Perhaps Mat was referring to Ubuntu, which has introduced an all-new   
   user interface called Unity on top of the GNOME3 codebase, and which has   
   more in common with GNOME3 than with any of the other desktop   
   environments.  But then again, Ubuntu is either way not to be   
   recommended as a distro anymore due to Canonical's decision to include   
   spyware and adware in it, even though it's removable - but not by a   
   GNUbie, and you need to Google for the instructions yourself.   
      
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   = Aragorn =   
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