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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by pjmlp on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:44AM (#15712200)
Most Linux users are against nice UI/UX provided by GNOME, KDE, Anjuta, KDevelop, GNOME Builder, .... as seen by the complaints and forks.

There is this culture of tiling window managers, vim, Emacs, everything done via CLI and UI/UX is a subject of interest only for dumb users.

Which surfaces as the biggest one among its users.

So anyone that cares about programming pleasant UI/UX workflows, hang with developers that share the same love for it, only has macOS and Windows dev cultures as harbor.

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by plupf on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:18AM (#15713268)
Many many Linux users are all for nice UIs, and pretty animations. Which is why GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE, Cinnamon, Budgie, Pantheon exist in the first place.

The sheer amount, variety and quality of themes available for a typical Linux distro puts your point to rest.

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by pjmlp on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:39PM (#15714658)
What puts my point to rest is that the only successful Linux based consumer devices, are a web browser based OS and a Java based one, with nothing Linux specific exposed to its users or app developers.
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