I used to really like skinning my desktops to make them look like another operating system. I stopped doing that years ago; and not necessarily because I wanted to do something more useful with my time. I stopped doing it because I somehow saw how utterly pointless it was. Why? I'll explain-- using Aston Martins and Jaguars. Yes, it's time for another car analogy, boys and girls. Note: This is this week's Sunday Eve Column.
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Member since:2005-07-08
Ahhh but i am talking about that too. Read carefully I mentioned running Aqua on windows. Of course I can't cover every permutation of running whatever on whatever so I gave an example. And you also misread that sentance you quoted. It means a person can run a ported skin and actually not want the OS it was ported from believe it or not and that is their business.
Seems like you completely missed everything I wrote.
IT'S JUST A SKIN.
Edited 2006-02-27 10:08
Member since:2005-06-29
The thing is-- I'm not 'offended' if other people are using skins, as you think. All I did in my column was explain why and how *I* found out how useless skinning actually is, FOR ME. If you want to skin, then go ahead, I don't care.
That doesn't stop me from explaining why I find something pointless, though.
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2005-06-29
You are operating under the false assumption that everyone who skins their OS wants another OS or is fooling themselves into thinking they are running that other OS.
That's why I was CLEARLY talking about skinning operating systems to make them resemble other OS's-- and NOT about skinning in general.
Seems like you are operating under the false assumption that I'm operating under the false assumption that everyone who skins their OS wants another OS or is fooling themselves into thinking they are running that other OS.
Err...