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Are they not keeping the classic look around at all? Is it being ditched entirely? I know of several large volume school districts ditching Windows (or even Mac) for Linux (we're one of them going Mac to Linux) and we personally have had incredible success. However, we're also not running Gnome Shell or Unity (though I doubt it would make much difference besides a slightly steeper learning curve). We're running a customized XFCE variant. So while other desktop environments are paving the way for new interfaces, our interface is aimed to be easy to use and simple with as minimal learning curve as possible.
I guess the bottom line is this. I'm all for change, I'm all for new toys and tinkering, but not at the expense of leaving a certain pack of users in the dust. (Apple is notorious for this) At the same token, catering to user's needs who want to use Windows 95 for the next 100 years is as LOL-able as you can get. You need a happy median, something that fits for the scenario. Especially when you introduce something drastically new, there needs to be a buffer zone, a transitional time period. I hope based on that principle alone that the start menu sticks around as an available option, at least for now.
In regard to this comment alone, that's one nice thing about a largely community driven segment of the spectrum. There will always be that fork, or alternative available. Once the Gnome project went to 3.0 and released Shell, out of left field came Cinnamon, an environment based on the look and feel of Gnome 2.0. If Microsoft/Apple goes balls to the wall with Metro/iOS and says nope, too bad. What do you have left to fall back on?
Apple is beginning to scare me too with this. I'm not entirely sure why computer interfaces need to look tabletized. I don't think it'll be long where Apple will ramp down OSX with certain functionalities and ramp up iOS with certain functionalities to thereby make them uniform and one.
Might be slightly off the radar with the recent GUI discussion, but is Microsoft still forcefully pushing the secure boot with no possibility of disabling the thing? (as if it'll make a difference, because it'll be cracked 9 minutes after release anyway). When I read about secure boot and the ability to assign Linux keys to it to get them to boot, I thought, wow, +1 Microsoft. Way to offer security (not one of your strong points) yet allow functionality to exist for users with other OS desires... only to find out from a resource leak weeks later that Microsoft deliberately said absolutely no disabling secure boot. Sweet. Way to go all Apple on everyone. One can only hope this is not true and/or will change, because that certainly won't fly.
), and they do respond to user feedback. I'm guessing most of the crowd (non-tech people) kind of like the new tablet base. I'm sure both companies will realize when they have crossed the line between tablet and cpu. Hopefully...
