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From Ubuntu Tweak website.
It makes me wonder why such application it’s needed, when Canonical claims constantly that they are building an user-centric and user-experience focused desktop.
There are things that aren’t easy to tweak by a newbie in a stock Gnome system, but I believe Ubuntu has been adding lately more of those default features you can’t change (I have a Ubuntu user at home, and she eventually stopped using Ubuntu Netbook Edition because of this).
In my humble opinion, both things are wrong. One of the most important features of open source it’s the possibility of adapting it to your needs, and traditionally it’s been easy to do so. I feel comfortable at Gnome, and KDE it’s kind of too much configurable for me, but I’m convinced that the abuse of defaults turning them into we think for you, and we know what is better for you isn’t right and will annoy the users.
I’m not saying than UX and UI design teams aren’t needed, but theirs it’s a tough job and prone to criticism, because open source software user profile is far away of being uniform, thus that kind of defaults can’t work for everybody.
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