| brent timothy saner on 16 Mar 2008 16:32:49 -0700 |
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Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > On Sunday 16 March 2008, brent timothy saner wrote: > >> there was a gentleman who posted to the list about a month or so ago, > >> saying up until now he had been using windows 95 or 98 (can't recall > >> which) and was considering the move to GNU/Linux. > > There's a big downside to trying to mimic the look of another OS: When > Linux behaves differently, it can come across as a flaw. Having a > different appearance provides a sense that the user shouldn't expect > everything to behave as on some other OS. > definitely a good warning. i'm pretty sure this is moreso designed as a novelty/nostalgia-type thing rather than true interoperability/easy of migration. -- Brent Saner 215.264.0112(cell) http://www.thenotebookarmy.org Bill Gates is to hacking as Sid Vicious was to the Sex Pistols: no talent, everyone hates him, and he's just in it for the fame and money. GPG INFO: pub 1024D/832D950A 2008-01-26 uid Brent Timothy Saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> uid Brent Timothy Saner (ACE Technology Group, www.acetechgroup.com) <sanerb@acetechgroup.com> sub 4096g/1C18F61D 2008-01-26 (pgp.mit.edu) FINGERPRINT: 91EC 3B91 17E3 84E8 662A 9911 F2ED 9987 832D 950A Attachment:
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