Originally Posted by
TheAsterisk!
Nevermind the GUI, but take a look at UEFI, which in practice will keep you from installing your own OS on hardware sold with Windows 8. Ostensibly for security, but shims have already been found here and there to bypass it, just not very easily.
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God, I hope it's not Ubuntu. Ubuntu sucks. Among the Linux systems, Ubuntu is the guy who kept the training wheels on his bike well into high school, and it eventually didn't even make the bike easier for him, but just got in the way and make him look like a dork. Kind of like the old MS Office helpers, like Clippy, the world's most hated paperclip.
That, and they constantly show hints of wishing they also had a closed-ecosystem for developers and an envy for Apple, and all the crying Linux fanboys in the world merely slow down their march towards an interface meant to condescend to users. They even made MS's Metro mistake before MS did, only Canonical (the company that makes Ubuntu) called it Unity instead. Awful damn thing...
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