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Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux

Posted by timothy on from the design-team-denied-your-request dept.

colinneagle writes "Earlier this week I installed the final version of Windows 8. And it is awesome. That's not a joke. Windows 8 is absolutely, unequivocally stellar. And yet, at the end of the day, I am right back to using Linux. Why is that? What is it about Linux that makes me so excited to use it — even while enjoying another operating system that I view as, in all seriousness, a work of art? Why do I not simply install Windows 8 on every machine I own and be happy with it? For me, it's the ability to slowly chip away and remove items from your user interface until you are left with only want you want, and nothing more. The option of looking at an item on the screen, right clicking on it, and declaring to said item 'Listen up, mister Thing-On-My-Screen. I don't want you anymore. Be gone!' Panels, bars, docks, launchers, widgets, gadgets – whatever is on your screen, there is probably a way to send it to whatever form of the afterlife is reserved for unwanted Desktop Crud. And, I'll tell you this right now – as great as it is, you don't find a whole lot of 'Right click, Remove Panel' in Windows 8."

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  1. First TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Referring to this story being first on the front page.

    1. Re:First TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      3.5 million people in Seattle.
      94000 Microsoft employees globally.

      Paranoid neckbeards are so amusing.

    2. Re:First TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      So everyone who happens to live in the greater Seattle area is now a Microsoft shill?

      Microsoft is a large employer in the area, I'll give you that, but Seattle is a big city. All Microsoft employees in the area total maybe 2% of the population. There are lots of Linux geeks to go around.

  2. Re:Then why not a Mac? by mkiwi · · Score: 1, Troll

    Quit complaining about OS X unless you can put in a substitute window manager. You don't have to use Aqua or Quartz, just like the gp implied. Hell, I've booted a desktop mac off of Darwin and run KDE on top of it-–no OS X specific GUI stuff required. If you have the capability, a few simple changes in config files and you be running in X11 with an xterm at log on.

    If you can not do that, then you need to hand in your geek card and not post such ignorance.