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Wow, that guy seems to be completely out of touch with desktop UI and UX. His main source of arguments is that iOS and Android doesn't do X, so Elementary shouldn't either - a what now? Is he really comparing a touchbased small screen device OS that is primarily used for casual applications to keyboard/mouse desktop that is often used in a complex professional environments?

That's one way to kill any credibility you had I guess.

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I agree on the substance of your comment re: interfaces, but let’s not put too much stock in a random tweet. He might not mean any of that.

In any case, this release of Elementary isn’t any more paired down than the latest GNOME shell.

They seem to have a relatively sane approach to building GUI toolkit (though “sane” is relative given this particular domain) so I’m curious to see where they take things even if I don’t use it.

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