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Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've never understood this. You go through all the trouble of switching OSes, presumably because you don't like something about it, and then proceed to make it look exactly like what you had?

What's hard to understand about familiarity?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can have familiarity without direct replication. KDE Plasma uses a lot of the same design metaphors as Windows, yet it's distinct, both visually and functionally.

Linux will never work exactly like Windows, and I think it's important to highlight that with the design. For example, instead of replicating the Microsoft Store and Windows Update split, it combines them in the Discover app, because system and user software is combined in Linux. It's pretty intuitive, but different.

Familiarity is fine, but the more you try to make one thing look like another, the more jarring the differences become.