I don't know if Linus Torvalds has nightmares about Linux turning into Windows but some people definitely do. Linux Doesn't Need to Look Like Windows has been a popular and oft-visited article about Vixta on reddit since last week. It had spurred about 100 comments going back and forth about the merit of Vixta's user interface design and whether Linux should look like Windows.
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neozen
45 weeks 6 days 23 hours 32 min ago
"both theories are wrong, if you
"both theories are wrong, if you ask me."
not too wrong if you ask me. i know it sounds kinda stupid to the gnu/linux trained that knows how it's better, but i was talking to my mom yesterday about efficiency (been trying to convince her for a while, but she's "too used to learn something new") and she actually like the idea of vixta.
and hey, as some say, gnu/linux is gnu/linux, right?
lozz
46 weeks 16 hours 27 sec ago
Why???
Why???
spikeb
46 weeks 15 hours 14 min 19 sec ago
probably working from one of two
probably working from one of two theories: 1) it's easier for switchers if you clone windows or 2) more people will switch because it looks perdy, like vista
both theories are wrong, if you ask me.
dehumanizer
45 weeks 6 days 22 hours 31 min ago
FFS we need something new, not
FFS we need something new, not Windows/OSX clones. I for one like the idea behind Mezzo... though I need a demo that works first. :-)