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by lone_haxx0r 2568 days ago
> Complaining about the _splash screen_ of a phone?

The typical argument of people without any aesthetic taste: it's inane, it doesn't matter, etc. I, for one, find it perfectly reasonable to complain about such a thing.

Would you buy a suit with a giant drawing of a penis on its back? It's inane to complain about it, right? Well, some people actually care about the appearance and design of things.

I say this as a Linux user and "FOSS zealot". Linux distributions have many design quirks and, let's face it, usability deficiencies. I use Linux despite that fact, because I prefer dealing with those deficiencies instead of dealing with the user-hostily of Microsoft and Apple, but if someone complains about the deficiencies of Linux I don't go around calling them inane.