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ErroneousBoshyesterday at 6:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

Surely it doesn't matter what the DE is then? My mum adjusted from Windows XP (when that was current) to Ubuntu 14-ish fairly easily, by simply remembering "switch it on and then click on the big swirly fox thing".


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marcosdumayyesterday at 6:19 PM

> Surely it doesn't matter what the DE is then?

It matters a lot if you deviate from the ones that (are set to) behave in a similar way.

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tredre3yesterday at 8:13 PM

Ubuntu comes with a dock which is close enough to Windows.

The comment chain you're replying to is arguing that vanilla GNOME is too different, and they're right.