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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by Toutouxc on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:40AM (#34706821)
> think that having the ability to change things means that they absolutely MUST go through all the settings menus and change things.

That sure does sound like a straw man argument to me. Are you sure you've really heard "pls don't make me change all the things, I don't like changing things" instead of the much more plausible "pls don't make me use a system where someone had to implement (and has to support) functionality that I personally don't need, and as a (possibly) developer myself I understand that this adds complexity to the system and places burden on BOTH the user and the developer"?

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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by midoridensha on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @07:55PM (#34718186)
It's not a straw man. People really do say these things. They complain that the existence of lots of configuration menus and options means that they MUST go through all these menus and configure everything themselves. Believe it or not. I've seen it time and time again, for over a decade, every time there's an argument of Gnome vs. KDE.
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