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Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

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  1. bregma · · focus · HN ↗

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    1. Yizahi · · focus · HN ↗
      Do you hold your phone to the same standard and do everything from Termux there? Or the GUI disdain is reserved strictly to the PCs?
      1. qiqitori · · focus · HN ↗
        Smartphone UIs are a devastating blow to humankind. They make a real computer just redundant enough that people buy smartphones instead of computers and then just don't do anything that can't be easily done on a smartphone. Furthermore, as doing anything productive is so painful on smartphones, people just passively consume stuff instead.
        1. skxkwjxkwjci · · focus · HN ↗
          > Smartphone UIs are a devastating blow to humankind.

          This, right here, is EXACTLY why the general public has a big “eeeeeeeeh nah” reaction to anything Linux and actually prefer mobile UIs. Your elitist “ehrmahgehrd GUIs are for dumbstersss learn to use a terminal you newb” just shows you are completely out of touch with reality, and worse than that, you seem to wear that as some sort of badge of honour “I’m such a greybeard, a true wizard of computing”.

          Get over yourself, man.

          1. Yizahi · · focus · HN ↗
            I remembered an Emacs skit :)

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