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Another comic success!

Another comic success!

Posted Sep 29, 2012 10:20 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Another comic success! by sjj
Parent article: GNOME 3.6 released

Well, loss of a 'sense of empowerment' *is* a valid point. "This system no longer feels like I am in control of it because GNOME 3 is so inflexible: instead it feels like it is controlling me" is a valid criticism -- a shorter way of saying exactly the same thing is that it disempowers you.

I happen to think that this is a bad thing, but of course it is necessarily subjective. Apple stuff takes almost every option away from you, and people seem to like it.


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Another comic success!

Posted Oct 1, 2012 13:56 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

Not everybody likes it when Apple does it. Indeed, it's why some of us don't use OS X. If you happen to like the workflow that {Steve Jobs,$GNOME_DESIGNER} likes then you can live with the disempowerment, otherwise you go somewhere else.

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