Ideas Ubuntu should steal from Windows 7

Re:Ideas Ubuntu should steal from Windows 7 by rbanffy on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @04:36PM (#718498)

In my experience, many people don't like Gnome because it doesn't look like the desktop they are used to.

If I went back some 40 years and presented Gnome to IBM mainframe users, they would complain the lettering is not green on black.

But I would love to have the 3278 font available on my boxes.

And no, it's not exactly the one on x3270. They got the 6's and 9's wrong

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Re:Ideas Ubuntu should steal from Windows 7 by Zak on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @05:00PM (#718554)

I've found that reaction doesn't last very long. In fact, configuring any Linux desktop to look extremely similar to Windows[0] leads users to think everything will be extremely similar. They tend to be more upset upon discovering unexpected differences than they are when it's obviously different from the start.

[0] I say Windows here because I've only seen in with Windows users. Users of any other platform are used to the idea of different operating systems.

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