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dangustoday at 5:50 AM2 repliesview on HN

You…ever see a screenshot of Gnome?

This statement of yours is also a bit silly considering Linux desktops have way more in common with macOS than with Windows. They share a whole bunch of concepts like POSIX compliance, use the same shells, and they even share a package manager (Homebrew, which seems to be gaining a bit of Linux popularity lately). Even CUPS comes to mind.


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cosmic_cheesetoday at 6:00 AM

Gnome is only similar to macOS in the most superficial of ways. You don't even have to go beyond skin-deep for the illusion to start to fall apart. It compares more closely to iPadOS or Android in desktop mode.

Linux desktops in general skew either Windows-like or ultra-minimal tiling thing.

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GrowingSidewaystoday at 5:54 AM

Gnome is still a windows knockoff yea? Can you use readline bindings in a textfield?

Edit: I mean, usable text fields. Like you have on a mac. You hit control-a and it goes to the start of the field. The command key is for interacting with the application.

> You…ever see a screenshot of Gnome?

Let's talk usability, not bullshit. Also gnome looks like... the rest of computers. It has no usability and is indistinguishable from other windows knockoffs

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