> I'm quite sick of the trend that things have to be dumbed down for the average user so that things look "slick."
This has been one of the primary complaints about the One Macintosh Way since the first Mac proved that 1984 was going to be like Nineteen Eighty-Four and its largest competition was systems built around command lines, such as the Apple ][ and Commodore 64. It's never hurt Apple yet, and their durable majorities in coffeeshops and design hausen don't look eager to abandon them over it now.
> At least, there, you have the option to get rid of GDM and Mutter, install OpenBox, and be merry.
You... you understand that Linux has more than one GUI! Are you a god?
This has been one of the primary complaints about the One Macintosh Way since the first Mac proved that 1984 was going to be like Nineteen Eighty-Four and its largest competition was systems built around command lines, such as the Apple ][ and Commodore 64. It's never hurt Apple yet, and their durable majorities in coffeeshops and design hausen don't look eager to abandon them over it now.
> At least, there, you have the option to get rid of GDM and Mutter, install OpenBox, and be merry.
You... you understand that Linux has more than one GUI! Are you a god?