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> I mean its a fucking workstation, and they are still chasing the grandma market Ubuntu's original mission was to make a desktop for the general user, as ever

• mixmastamyk 11y ago
  Don't confuse low-quality, buggy, and incomplete with technical users. Yes, they are able to work around issues but crap is not what makes a technical workstation. See CADT, https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html Ubuntu has arguably not succeeded at either, except by accident with Ubuntu Mate. It still isn't as cohesive and complete as Windows 2000 was, which was good for technical and general users alike. SGIs were pretty good too. I'll give you some examples. Since the early 90's NT has supported custom gui themes, you can change colors in a theme in a few clicks. It has had a gui service manager to administer service daemons, very easy to use. (Windows has actually gotten worse also!) This is the correct level of abstraction for a workstation. The two choices given today between broken/absent and crippled/too-difficult are no choice at all. These things still don't exist under free desktops decades later! Or they may have existed for a few years until the next CADT wave broke them. http://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/winnt351 http://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/winnt351