[OT] How long before..

[ambassador at fourthworld.com]

Richmond wrote:

> One of the initial premises of Linux was that folks could muck it
> around to their heart's content, especially with regard to the GUI;
> if this is lost and/or removed a very great part of the appeal of
> Linux for the average Joe will be lost.

You have more than a hundred distros to choose from, each with multiple 
desktop environments, each of those with at least dozens of tweak 
options, and the source code for all of that is freely available.

What exactly were you able to do yesterday that's impossible for you to 
do today?

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