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I've been using WindowMaker since before Ubuntu even existed, and I fundamentally cannot understand switching distros because of a default UI. The first thing I
by msla 9y ago
I've been using WindowMaker since before Ubuntu even existed, and I fundamentally cannot understand switching distros because of a default UI. The first thing I do when I install any distro is install a brace of packages, WindowMaker among them, and create a good environment for myself. I could not care less about the intricacies of the default UI because if I'm using it for more than a trivial amount of time, something's probably gone very wrong.
To me, it sounds like not buying Ford because the Ford on the lot is red and you like blue, except even less sensible because it sometimes costs money to get "special" colors for cars.
I'm very much in the second camp in this blog post:
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TwoEnvironmentsApproach https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TwoEnviron...
I have an environment I drag everywhere I can, and I come to actively dislike systems like Macs where I can't turn them into my system. I always feel like a guest, and not a well-liked one, and I'm never going to be happy as a guest on my own home system.
- tomsthumb 9y agoThese considerations are made on the basis that some users are not explicitly aware that they are using a window manager, nor do they know what one is or that they could change it or how the could change it. You're right though that it's odd that some users who _do_ know those things will distro hop for that reason.