R: Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

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>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx
>Data: 2-set-2011 11.51

>A: "Community support for Fedora users"<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Ogg: 
Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS&#39;s.. irritating, offensive,	difficult 
to use with ease, nauseating to try...
>
>On 1 September 2011 21:15, Linda 
McLeod <lindavaldeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I love this Fedora-14, and 
everything Red Hat, but Fedora-15 is a lot
>> like those vile Windows OS's..
>

>Essentially, every time I see a post like this I stop reading as soon
>as it 
tries to argue that something is wrong because it's like
>Windows. Reductio ad 
Gates is not a valid demonstration that something
>is undesireable and 
successive attempts at doing it commonly vary
>between 'this is obscure', 'this 
is oversimplified', 'this isn't
>configurable to my liking' and 'I don't like 
it'. All of those on
>their own might be good reasons to object to a design or 
feature and
>might be points worth discussing, but lots of people seem to thing

>that the Linux community is about Not Being Windows and that if you
>can 
equate something you don't like to Windows in some way then you've
>proved that 
it's undesireable. This is simply not true.
>
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For sure, Gnome 3 is far from Windows.

I suggest an easy test: install a 
brand new Fedora 15 and let a Windows user start to use it (someone who never 
saw a Linux system), report his experience

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