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Most users don't care but yes it's nice for the market to have something like this.

5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
IME they very much do care, they're simply not aware that a constantly changing user interface is not just something you have to deal with, like death or taxes. Every time I play tech support for friends and family it's the same story about how everything looks different yet again and how they can't find that thing that was right here just recently. (For myself I have cobbled together something that looks roughly like Windows 95 did decades ago, but doing that for others comes with its own problems, so not forcing that on anyone.)
- zx8080 4y ago
  Did you try xfce with win95 theme? This works pretty stable, though not kde.
DonHopkins 4y ago
Stop making homophobic and transphobic posts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402242 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402242
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- isthisthingon99 4y ago
  Bro you're weird. Are you really going through the entire post history lol.
  - DonHopkins 4y ago
    People go through your entire post history and criticize you for breaking the rules by posting your homophobic transphobic bullshit here, and you should expect it. Hacker News is not the place to spread your insults and hate speech, like Truth Social. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of consequences, and when you post that kind of bullshit, one of the consequences is that people know you're an asshole. If you're embarrassed about people reading what you wrote, realizing what kind of a person you really are, and telling you what they think about it, then don't ask for it by trolling like Fred Flintstone and Archie Bunker. Grow up, and take responsibility for your own actions.
    - isthisthingon99 4y ago
      Man shut up
      - DonHopkins 4y ago
        Obviously you can't counter or address any of my points, so now you concede and want to cut off the conversation that YOU started by inappropriately posting insulting homophobic and transphobic hate speech, because you can't even prove or justify your lies. So you stop making homophobic and transphobic posts and insults and lies, and then I will stop replying to your hate speech and insulting lies, reminding you that what you're doing is against the rules. Just why do you post idiotic close minded bullshit, then suddenly not want to talk about what YOU brought up, anyway? Is it because you can't justify it when questioned? Because your own words embarrass you and make you look like an asshole and a bully? Then stop posting that bullshit, if you are so afraid of answering my questions that you just want me to shut up because you know you will lose the argument! You posted the following bullshit, in your own words, that you can't defend: >"Because a few years ago they used that on gay marriage and they said no you will never have men dressed as women in libraries you're being silly." -isthisthingon99 Exactly who said "you will never have men dressed as women in libraries"? Can you provide a direct quote or citation, or are you just making that up and lying? If you can't prove that somebody actually said that, then retract it and apologize for lying, and don't post hate speech and lies you can't defend in the future. And explain what exactly is wrong with men dressing as women in libraries, or anywhere else? Do you also believe kids shouldn't watch Bugs Bunny or Mrs Doubtfire or The Nutty Professor either? Bugs Bunny was America’s first drag superstar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKo4mOljkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKo4mOljkc Explain why are you so afraid of and hateful about trans and gay people (or cartoon rabbits, for that matter) that it drives you to lie and bully and humiliate yourself in public by posting indefensible hate speech and childish insults, like you do? How do they threaten or affect your life in any way at all? Or is it all about your own internalized homophobia, self loathing, and hatred of your own repressed feelings? Because real straight and cis people aren't terrified of and irrationally threatened by gay and trans people, like you obviously are. If you could justify your own bigoted beliefs, you would. So tell me to shut up again, if you have no better response, can't counter my points, and I'm correct about you lying and taking your own repressed self loathing out on other people who terrify you.

IME they very much do care, they're simply not aware that a constantly changing user interface is not just something you have to deal with, like death or taxes. Every time I play tech support for friends and family it's the same story about how everything looks different yet again and how they can't find that thing that was right here just recently. (For myself I have cobbled together something that looks roughly like Windows 95 did decades ago, but doing that for others comes with its own problems, so not forcing that on anyone.)

zx8080 4y ago
Did you try xfce with win95 theme? This works pretty stable, though not kde.

DonHopkins 4y ago

Stop making homophobic and transphobic posts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402242 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402242

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isthisthingon99 4y ago
Bro you're weird. Are you really going through the entire post history lol.
- DonHopkins 4y ago
  People go through your entire post history and criticize you for breaking the rules by posting your homophobic transphobic bullshit here, and you should expect it. Hacker News is not the place to spread your insults and hate speech, like Truth Social. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of consequences, and when you post that kind of bullshit, one of the consequences is that people know you're an asshole. If you're embarrassed about people reading what you wrote, realizing what kind of a person you really are, and telling you what they think about it, then don't ask for it by trolling like Fred Flintstone and Archie Bunker. Grow up, and take responsibility for your own actions.
  - isthisthingon99 4y ago
    Man shut up
    - DonHopkins 4y ago
      Obviously you can't counter or address any of my points, so now you concede and want to cut off the conversation that YOU started by inappropriately posting insulting homophobic and transphobic hate speech, because you can't even prove or justify your lies. So you stop making homophobic and transphobic posts and insults and lies, and then I will stop replying to your hate speech and insulting lies, reminding you that what you're doing is against the rules. Just why do you post idiotic close minded bullshit, then suddenly not want to talk about what YOU brought up, anyway? Is it because you can't justify it when questioned? Because your own words embarrass you and make you look like an asshole and a bully? Then stop posting that bullshit, if you are so afraid of answering my questions that you just want me to shut up because you know you will lose the argument! You posted the following bullshit, in your own words, that you can't defend: >"Because a few years ago they used that on gay marriage and they said no you will never have men dressed as women in libraries you're being silly." -isthisthingon99 Exactly who said "you will never have men dressed as women in libraries"? Can you provide a direct quote or citation, or are you just making that up and lying? If you can't prove that somebody actually said that, then retract it and apologize for lying, and don't post hate speech and lies you can't defend in the future. And explain what exactly is wrong with men dressing as women in libraries, or anywhere else? Do you also believe kids shouldn't watch Bugs Bunny or Mrs Doubtfire or The Nutty Professor either? Bugs Bunny was America’s first drag superstar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKo4mOljkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKo4mOljkc Explain why are you so afraid of and hateful about trans and gay people (or cartoon rabbits, for that matter) that it drives you to lie and bully and humiliate yourself in public by posting indefensible hate speech and childish insults, like you do? How do they threaten or affect your life in any way at all? Or is it all about your own internalized homophobia, self loathing, and hatred of your own repressed feelings? Because real straight and cis people aren't terrified of and irrationally threatened by gay and trans people, like you obviously are. If you could justify your own bigoted beliefs, you would. So tell me to shut up again, if you have no better response, can't counter my points, and I'm correct about you lying and taking your own repressed self loathing out on other people who terrify you.