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Re:Gnome: Staring into the abyss by mindcrime on Friday July 27, 2012 @10:15AM (#4301484)
And putting in all those little checkboxes makes a product a horrible experience for the rest of the world.

It doesn't have to. The measure of a good product, as far as I'm concerned, is the extent to which it can retain all the power the power-users want, while still keeping things simple enough for the non-power-users. OR, better yet, the extent to which it can help non-power-users become power-users.

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Re:Gnome: Staring into the abyss by SoftwareMaven on Friday July 27, 2012 @11:51AM (#4301987)
Apple has done pretty well here. Their desktop is very opinionated with very few checkboxes anywhere, yet many things can be tweaked at the command line.
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