What's supposed to replace menus?

[Pastor JW]

On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:21:29 pm Ric Moore wrote:
> On 03/13/2012 10:46 PM, Pastor JW wrote:
> > On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:23:56 pm Gerhard Magnus wrote:

> Windows appears to be doing the very same thing, so I submit that some
> lawyers threatened a patent dispute and that one of the conditions to
> quietly settle it was that everyone shut up about it. As mad as it has
> made both the Windows and Linux camps, SOMEONE didn't want the negative
> press and the ire of the users, plus the benefit of the users being mad
> at their present distro, instead of who-ever-THEY-are. It fits nicely as
> a possible explanation. I'd point the finger at whoever still has drop
> down menus for their users. Go get 'em.

Quite plausible but if you are going to lose your users how did it gain you 
anything?  We had menu systems in Commodore 64s and Amiga and that was what? 
30 some odd years ago?

> > I don't know what the motivation was but so far I have lost two of my
> > users because of it.  One said, and I quote, "If I have to go through
> > all this crap to start a program, I'll just go back to windoze".  So I
> > had to load XP back on his computers.  Kinda sucks but I can't blame
> > him.  I doubt I'll get him back even after Unity is dumped as he was
> > very upset about it.  I can't think of a better way to lose market share
> > than Unity so if that is what is wanted they should be very successful.
> 
> I have to ask, why didn't you install the XFCE desktop for your user
> instead, to "sin no more", Pastor??

I did try to talk him into it but my error was in telling him it was using the 
same Ubuntu operating system.  He was afraid the rest of the desktops would 
follow suit.  ...and/or interfere with the stable operation. He was a business 
user with a five machine office.  Oh, and he also found out he could run Open 
Office in XP.  That was another thing he was upset about as Libre screwed up his 
Open Office setup.    

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