Why do a lot of Linux distros look like Mac OS?

>>61435478
Because it looks good, so why not

>>61435497
Why can't it look more like Windows? Especially with all the *buntu distros.

>>61435478
Because you can only organise and interface with programs graphically using dialogues and windows in so many different ways.

>>61435516
Windows has a counter-intuitive GUI that is the result of bad design choices in the mid 90s and being forced to keep them due to normies being a bunch of baby ducks.

>>61435516
Because Windows looks terrible and is basically complete shit. Why would they copy some cheap piece of Pajeet shit when they can try (and fail) to copy the GOAT?

>>61435497
I don't think it looks good. The top bar paradigm is shit, and floating docs are a ricer meme that should have died out with 3D rotating desktops and transparent terminals.

>>61435478
Linux looks like just a command prompt. Ubuntu is what's in your pic.

>>61435539

Can you explain? (examples)

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What would you rather they look like?

>>61435545
You're not funny.

>>61435478
>a lot
it's only unity and gnome

>>61435577
I'm not trying to be. There are multiple desktop environments and window managers to choose from.

>>61435577
>>61435545
He's right tho

>>61435546
Click start to shut down, for example.

When you open properties on a file or driver, what's hidden under the "Advanced..." dialogue is arbitrarily decided and makes no sense. Who decides that typing in DNS IP addresses manually is an Advanced feature, whereas setting the ethernet card's ringbuffer size is not?

>>61435695
First point is grasping at straws
Second point is valid

>>61435695
>Click start to shut down, for example.
You're starting the process of shutting down your computer.

>>61435695
>Click start to shut down, for example.

Here's what you sound like

>I don't want to run terminal, I want to run ipconfig, why do I have to open terminal to open ipconfig???

Start opens up a general use command panel with shortcuts to a bunch of different functions and features, only one of which is the option to shut down.

>>61435709
It's not grasping at straws, it's just that it has been around for so long that you don't fully realise how counter intuitive that design choice actually was back then.

>>61435719
See, that makes no semantic sense whatsoever. It's clear that this was designed by an autistic programmer.

>>61435724
Turning off your computer is completely different than running a network configuration utility program.

Also, opening a terminal is not opening a command panel. A terminal (emulator) is a different shell. The graphical shell is a different shell. They're different shells to the core which is your kernel.

>>61435516
>what is mate
>what is cinnamon
>what is kde
>what xfce
>what is lxde
Are you new or you baiting?

>>61435734
>See, that makes no semantic sense whatsoever.

And tell me, why is the unmount command umount?

>>61435787
umount maps 1:1 to the umount syscall.

>>61435695
>Click start to shut down, for example.
The early Chicago betas didn't have that but they moved it all into one button because having all these buttons on your taskbar that do different shit just isn't intuitive.

>>61435802
So it's retarded because of legacy reasons and not because it makes any kind of sense.

>>61435802
why is the syscall called umount instead of unmount

>>61435813
The coreutil program umount offers different semantics, they are low-level utility programs meant to map to syscalls. It's a different shell to your kernel. It's not comparable to a function invoked from your graphical shell, the file system navigator is able to mount and unmount with a single click on an icon.

>>61435811
Which explains why you have a start button, a quicklaunch panel (windows 98 and XP), a task bar, a system tray and a standalone clock and calendar application, right?

>>61435840
>Which explains why you have a start button, a quicklaunch panel (windows 98 and XP), a task bar, a system tray and a standalone clock and calendar application, right?
You got it.

>>61435820
The same reason why strcmp isn't called string_compare, early Unices had size limitations on names and we just inherited that shit due to legacy reasons.

This is why muh Unix way/philosophy is ridiculous.

>>61435780
What do you think?

>>61435886
You're new and really bad at baiting
And I also think you should lurk more