It's not so much about "tweaking", it's about having alternatives and being able to choose.
Maybe I like Gnome, but frequently have to type things in a terminal while looking at something else. Gnome's terminal doesn't support transparency anymore. It's great that another fully featured terminal is just an apt-get away.
Maybe I work with a lot of windows, and for my workflow I like to roll-up windows (which is supported by KDE's kwin).
There are a lot of different use cases and workflows. The great thing about using a Linux distribution instead of OSX or Windows is that it can accommodate a lot of these out of the box, as the parts are interchangable. (Well, at least that used to be the case.)
And yes, people *do* also simply tweak. Customization and individualization is incredibly important to many people. If you weren't able to change the wallpaper, lots of people would reject an OS. It is a feature of "Linux" that you can change the theme, choose to use a dock, a taskbar, or the GNOME shell, and so on. Of course, it is not necessary, but to me and many people I know it is a huge draw, and one of the biggest reasons to choose Linux.
If a Linux distribution is no longer app-modular, tweakable, and stylable, well then it is just an inferior Unix to OSX (for the Desktop of course).
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Date: 2014-05-20 11:42 am (UTC)Maybe I like Gnome, but frequently have to type things in a terminal while looking at something else. Gnome's terminal doesn't support transparency anymore. It's great that another fully featured terminal is just an apt-get away.
Maybe I work with a lot of windows, and for my workflow I like to roll-up windows (which is supported by KDE's kwin).
There are a lot of different use cases and workflows. The great thing about using a Linux distribution instead of OSX or Windows is that it can accommodate a lot of these out of the box, as the parts are interchangable. (Well, at least that used to be the case.)
And yes, people *do* also simply tweak. Customization and individualization is incredibly important to many people. If you weren't able to change the wallpaper, lots of people would reject an OS. It is a feature of "Linux" that you can change the theme, choose to use a dock, a taskbar, or the GNOME shell, and so on. Of course, it is not necessary, but to me and many people I know it is a huge draw, and one of the biggest reasons to choose Linux.
If a Linux distribution is no longer app-modular, tweakable, and stylable, well then it is just an inferior Unix to OSX (for the Desktop of course).