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Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

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  1. wopwops · · focus · HN ↗
    Please give me the option to not use the, "Innovations."
    1. SA9G · · focus · HN ↗
      I remember Windows trying to look like my smartphone screen a few years back... that was when I switched to Ubuntu!
      1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
        By a few years, you mean more than ten. Halfway between now and windows XP.
        1. SA9G · · focus · HN ↗
          Yes, but time accelerates as you get older... your decade is almost yesterday for me :-)
          1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
            Time doesn't accelerate. You just have more things to compare to. If I'm 26, XP was the standard when I grew up. If I'm 90, 3/4 of my life was without ubiquitous computers and the whole thing seems like a fad relatively, but it's still lasted for-fucking-ever.

            If you find time accelerates it means you are letting yourself repeat the same day over and over, creating no new memories.

    2. pizzaiolo · · focus · HN ↗
      The was by far the most common type of comment I saw on this topic on Reddit. Do people think they'll be held at gunpoint?
      1. cindyllm · · focus · HN ↗

        [dead]

      2. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
        No, but they think it'll be standard on all major distros and alternatives will be abandoned, and there's precedent for this (systemd, gnome 3).
      3. account42 · · focus · HN ↗
        People don't need to imagine how such change is introduced when they have seen it again and again.
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