| Art Alexion on 4 Dec 2007 17:36:02 -0000 |
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On Monday 03 December 2007 21:42:22 Mike Leone wrote: > Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > > On Monday 03 December 2007, jeff wrote: > >> That's ok, I've never understood people who use Vista or Compiz. > >> I almost had a brain hemorrhage when people on the Treo list started > >> going NUTS over `pretty' cases for the thing. > > > > Definitely agreed. Not only does that kind of thing tax the hardware, > > but it tends to distract the user, and I usually find the effects to be > > fairly garish. I don't know much about Vista, but what I've seen from > > Compiz seems to indicate a greater concern for maximising bling instead > > of utility or tasteful aesthetics. > > Wanna hear about the frightening number of users in my old company who > think that MS's Clippie (in his guise of small animated dog or cat) is > just "so cute", and would NOT let me turn that option off? > > Lotsa folks like the bling ... resource use be damned ... same reason > people like pretty wallpaper. Me, I never see the background, but many > folks like to minimize everything and see it. That, and seasonal > screensavers - you know, the sort that rain snow down on your screen ... > bling, bling, bling .... > So why is it surprising that someone who wants to *sell* desktop Linux would want to spend time and money to develop bling? Remember, this isn't being sold to server administrators. Attachment:
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