[LAU] State of the art GUI

[James Morris]

On 28 January 2011 18:35, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede at gmail.com> wrote:
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> How much of a difference does that functional design
> provide to most users, vs how much of a difference does it make to
> have something that many people consider not very 'flashy' looking,
> which there is two parts of the latter half of that.  The first part
> is how many users are just turned away from the get go, assuming that

Why do we have to worry about people not liking Linux all the time? If
those buggers cause Linux to become all shiny and polished I'll have
to find some other OS to flagellate myself over.


> Obviously all of this is slightly moot, and is part of why I used the
> wording I did, because the old addage goes, "Beauty is in the eye of
> the beholder."  What I think looks beautiful can be very different
> from what Paul does, or anyone else for that matter.  There is no one
> single thing that will always be beautiful to everyone, but I think
> there can be some things that increase visual attractiveness to most
> people.

Most people are ignorant... of Linux.