I appreciate your car control analogy and can't understand why the designers don't understand a simple concept - I CAN adapt to changing contols and user interfaces, but I don't want to HAVE to adapt evey 6 months. With all the.conf files in Unix/Linux, you'd think it would be simple to create a single desktop.conf that would be read and accepted by DMs, which would specify which theme you use, where the menu is supposed to go, color settings, background, and all the other things that I shouldn't have to reconfigure every time I update my OS.
As far as whether Linux works out of the box or not, like Firefox, I prefer to have an OS that I can configure as I choose, to include leaving out all the bloatware that is prepackaged and irremovable from Windoze OSs.
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I appreciate your car control analogy and can't understand why the designers don't understand a simple concept - I CAN adapt to changing contols and user interfaces, but I don't want to HAVE to adapt evey 6 months. With all the .conf files in Unix/Linux, you'd think it would be simple to create a single desktop.conf that would be read and accepted by DMs, which would specify which theme you use, where the menu is supposed to go, color settings, background, and all the other things that I shouldn't have to reconfigure every time I update my OS.
As far as whether Linux works out of the box or not, like Firefox, I prefer to have an OS that I can configure as I choose, to include leaving out all the bloatware that is prepackaged and irremovable from Windoze OSs.