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Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room

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567 points elvis70 | 1 comments | 30 Mar 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.275s | source
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mfro ◴[30 Mar 25 16:30 UTC] No.43525382[source]▶
Is it really necessary to spin up an entirely new distro for an XFCE+GTK theme?
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grayhatter ◴[30 Mar 25 17:15 UTC] No.43525770[source]▶
> Stop spending time on things I don't care about

It's ok for people to waste time building stuff they think is cool. Did it need to be a distro? No but it also didn't need to exist. I'm glad it exists though, I think it really whips the llamas ass!

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charcircuit ◴[30 Mar 25 19:06 UTC] No.43526637[source]▶
This attitude is why Linux based operating systems have such poor market share on the desktop. Opportunity costs are real. Friction is real. You don't see Windows creating a new OS for a single theme. You don't see macOS do it either.
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1. Gormo ◴[31 Mar 25 12:39 UTC] No.43534290[source]▶
Why would the Linux ecosystem -- a diverse community of lots of different individuals and organizations all pursuing their own particular goals -- be singularly concerned with increasing desktop market share of Linux as a whole, and all pursue that in the exact same way?