XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro stated in post idkhsc$kah$2@lust.ihug.co.nz on 12/6/10
10:48 PM:
> In message , Hadron wrote:
>
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes:
>>
>>> In message , Snit wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know when my wife first saw Ubuntu she thought it was some OS from the
>>>> late '80s or early '90s just from the look.
>>>
>>> As opposed to Windows XP, still the most widely used version of Windows,
>>> which looks like a reject from a particularly bad brainstorming session
>>> in the marketing department at Fisher-Price.
>>
>> Windows XP came out in 2001 or so. It is purposely a "base look and feel".
>
> It was supposed to be ³modern² for its time. And yet it looks like a toy
> compared to current Linux distros.
Maybe you can post some screen shots to show this.
>> The ones being compared in this thread are modern UIs on the plethora of
>> distros that only seem to vary in the default theme... ie a waste of
>> time and effort that dilutes resources.
>
> I see, now you'e saying itıs ³a waste of time and effort that dilutes
> resources² to look better than Windows XP.
That is not what he is saying.
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