NMGLUGers, I have been talking to another member and we plan to review the LinuxMint Cinnamon desktop at Thursday's meeting. See https://nmglug.org/ and look for meeting time/place in right hand column. The many differences between Xfce4 and Cinnamon came to the fore and so we will look just at Cinnamon for Thursday night. I wonder if knowing that the icons merely call functions makes it easier for me to change from one system to another. People now use hieroglyphs to navigate phones and computers, so words get in the way. Or do they? Many serious tech workers eschew the GUI and just work via terminal. It is more direct, clear and precise. Anyway, a few of us do use the graphics and multi-purpose angle of computing, despite changing times and styles. For instance see this Decline of General Purpose <https://cacm.acm.org/research/the-decline-of-computers-as-a-general-purpose-technology/> article to get one perspective or come up with your own. I hope to see a few of us at the next meeting, Ted P, Santa Fe
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Ted Pomeroy