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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
Same here. I've never understood why the more WindowsXP like UIs are so popular with some Linux users. It's what held me back from using Linux for years. It's still not as nice as the Mac UI but making it look like Windows?
People like a familiar UI, because they are too lazy to learn something new. Also, when you are presented with an unfamiliar UI, you often hate it, because you immediately notice that the tricks you'd learned about your old UI don't work anymore, and you do not yet know the cool tricks the new UI allows.