I'd noted a few years back that Apple, Microsoft, and the KDE team had gotten into a three-way suck race, busily adding shininess to the UI while decreasing actual usability.
Well, KDE seems to be out of that race, having gotten decently usable again (albeit still not back to what it once was, and particularly lacking in, e.g., the printer/queue management app).
But fear not! Ubuntu seems determined to press on with the new "everything's a tablet" UI, so you'll have the small number of big shiny icons plastered across your 10" touchscreen... even if you have a 26" monitor and no touchscreen. Master menu? Taskbar? Multiple desktops? Naw, you don't want those; they totally don't work on a 10" tablet!
And! Not only has Apple been making its desktop UI more and more tablet/cellphone-ish, but now it seems Microsoft has gotten into the game! Yes, Windows 8 now forces all your desktop stuff into a cellphone-oriented UI!
So, we're back to a three-way suck race.
Excuse, please: while I often wish my cellphone were more like a real computer (e.g., any time I'm typing, let alone trying to do a select or a cut'n'paste), I've never once wished my computer had a more cellphone-like interface!
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