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by mhurron 4950 days ago
Is it just me or does it seem like the author doesn't know you can change to any number of desktop environments that will give them all they want while still being Ubuntu.

/Openbox/Slackware. This whole Linux thing is about choice.
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agranig 4950 days ago
It's not about Ubuntu in particular. Ubuntu just used to combine the concepts and tools in user-friendly way without the need to "tinker".

Where do you turn to for a modern Desktop if everything is going the same (=OSX) direction? The whole point is that staying with Gnome 2.x will put you into an entrenched situation, whereas everyone else is moving on, but in a way which just doesn't fit your way of working, and without perspective that it'll ever fit?

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dman 4950 days ago
The people who value the out of the box experience would likely be drawn to ubuntu because of its USP - its out of the box experience. If youre in the "I will set up my desktop to be exactly the way I want" then why not start with debian / fedora?
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