(08-17-2022, 01:24 PM)SMcNeill Wrote: There's *FINALLY* an ultimate solution to this whole Linux or Windows debate!
Did you guys know there's now a Windows 12 Lite out?? It's a Linux distro!
Windows *or* Linux?? PSSHHH!! Now you can have Win-ux! https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/new...CCwdJ.html
Lovely!
So is that someone's attempt to create a Linux distribution with the look & feel of Windows 7?
One of the biggest complaints I've always had about Linux is the whole feel of the GUI, the little things like
- the mouse doesn't "grab" the windows or window edges or other objects in the same easy way as Windows (all the way back to Windows 3.0 even! I haven't tried anything earlier). I hate the feel of the mouse in every single version of Linux I have ever tried :-O
- the right-click behavior & menus
- the Windows key & Start menu behavior, keyboard shortcuts (such as F2 rename, CTRL-A to select all files in Explorer, etc. etc.)
- the Start menu search bar
- Linux just seems to run more herky-jerky and slowly at times. Not as smooth as the Windows experience.
- The 1000 other things that are manual in Linux that you don't have to think about in Windows!
One nice thing about Linux is that everything is in the file system, configurations and settings aren't hidden in a registry like Windows (unless they are, and I don't know it? I'm no Linux expert!)
I would totally welcome a Linux distro where the desktop and front end behave exactly like Windows 10 or even 7 (I would include XP but the Windows key search box is a crucial feature if you ask me!)
Computers! You can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em! Well we can, but we'd be living like it's 1974 (maybe in some ways that's not so bad!
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