> And that means more pretty than functional. Not really. I mean if you think about it, the original Macintosh looked like shit even compared to its predecesso

> And that means more pretty than functional. Not really. I mean if you think about it, the original Macintosh looked like shit even compared to its predecessors; what was it, something like a nine inch screen in black and white, even greyscale it could only do with migraine-inducing dithering. But it could do desktop publishing when pretty much nothing else could, and Macintosh programs mostly used a consistent interface so you could figure out how to use them, and these functional advantages got people to buy the computer. Linux Mint looks as pretty as Windows or Mac OS, and Ubuntu would if they'd change the weird purple color scheme, but what happens when a client sends you an Excel spreadsheet? What happens when you want to plug in a second monitor? What happens when you want to play a triple-A video game? What's the battery life like on a laptop? Those are functional issues that need to be solved.