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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] About Devuan's audience
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 06:41:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:36:19 -0600
> Vince Mulhollon <vince@???> wrote:
>
>
> > There shouldn't be any "tweaking" for a desktop. This whole bad idea
> > comes from marketing at Microsoft
>
> Whoaaa, wait a minute. Another word for "tweaking" is "choice", kind of
> like the reason we revolted and overthrew Debian.


I don't think he was talking about choosing and adjusting the desktop
to suit you. I think he was talking about changing the underlying
infrastructure so it inexorably leads the way to a desktop, making
other desktops difficult, and making traaditional nondesktop awkward.

-- hendrik