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Quotes of the week

Posted Feb 3, 2011 3:32 UTC (Thu) by djm (subscriber, #11651)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by yokem_55
Parent article: Quotes of the week

I thought the "developers know best" idiocy peaked with GNOME 2.0, but wow was I wrong. This certainly clarifies which desktop environment I won't be using in a couple of years.


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Quotes of the week

Posted Feb 3, 2011 4:46 UTC (Thu) by linuxjacques (subscriber, #45768) [Link]

I agree. I have no idea who Gnome is targeting these days.

Quotes of the week

Posted Feb 3, 2011 5:25 UTC (Thu) by jmspeex (subscriber, #51639) [Link]

Gnome is targeting grandmas and they'll keep doing that until the only user left is the developer's grandma.

Quotes of the week

Posted Feb 4, 2011 4:50 UTC (Fri) by djm (subscriber, #11651) [Link]

So grandmas are the key to the coming decade of the Linux desktop? I never figured...

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Posted Feb 6, 2011 3:44 UTC (Sun) by nicooo (guest, #69134) [Link]

Maybe not the key, but still a significant role:
http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com

She doesn't use Gnome ;)

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Posted Feb 4, 2011 17:28 UTC (Fri) by MisterIO (guest, #36192) [Link]

I guess they thought the spatial mode for nautilus wasn't enough, so now they've come up with this. (I mean removing the option from the ui, not the choice of the default, which I think is reasonable)

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