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Or people who work at government agencies that are forced to use open source software. Or schools or universities or hospitals. Some users have disabilities and
by taffer 4y ago
Or people who work at government agencies that are forced to use open source software. Or schools or universities or hospitals. Some users have disabilities and accessibility is a requirement.
- midoridensha 4y agoI'm not aware of schools, universities, or hospitals using Linux/Gnome. I've heard of it for some US Government systems, where they seem wedded to Red Hat. All the medical computers I've ever seen are running Windows. Maybe RH has a bunch of institutional customers I'm completely unaware of, but as far as I can tell, the Gnome devs seem to be trying to build a GUI aimed at mythological users: non-technical users they somehow think are going to switch to Linux Real Soon Now if only they can entice them with their holy ultra-simplified GUI. The real world doesn't work this way.
- QUrprUd1nCeicw 4y agoThat user isn't mythical. I'm a developer and I like GNOME's simplifications. I prefer to spend less time messing about with my window manager and more time actually, you know, developing. If you ask me, the idea that technical people need to spend months hacking around their desktop and fighting with thousands of mutually incompatible config settings just to get it to work is a harmful stereotype perpetuated by the more toxic aspects of the Linux community.
- traverseda 4y agoKDE works fine out of the box and can be customized. It's what I use on my grandparents computer.
- QUrprUd1nCeicw 4y agoYeah that's fine if you prefer the default KDE workflow. If you prefer a different workflow, you have to either spend a lot of time configuring it, or use something else.