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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by cm2187 on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:11AM (#10750994)
To me the superiority of the windows GUI isn't really beauty or consistency (which with Windows 10 is basically gone, you have three styles in the same OS - Win 8, Win 7 and Win XP). And Windows has many other rough GUI edges.

To me the real superiority of the windows GUI is that almost all of the settings are accessible with a GUI. In Linux or MacOX you very quickly end up having to write some command lines or editing a text file. That's great for already experienced users or administrators running batches. But to the common user, discoverability and intuitiveness is crucial and you are not helping them with an OS they can't understand or control. One should be able to visually see the state of the system.

If CLI had auto-complete/intellisense features, the gap would be smaller.

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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by flavor8 on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:33AM (#10751073)
Regedit is not "discoverable".
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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by cm2187 on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:48AM (#10751144)
Arguably it's not that bad, you can visually go through sections / sub sections, which is an order of magnitude better than having to call individual keys with a command line. But I wouldn't call that a good GUI either.
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