"Part of the "different for the sake of it" problem is
the desire never to be seen as "copying" a different system, for
better or worse. User experiences should be as alien as possible,
to make sure they're aware of the extent to which they're not in
Kansas any more. The answer to "can I do foo" is never "yes" - it's
always "of course not, do bar instead". Migrating from a legacy OS
should never be a comfortable gradual process - it should be as
jarring as possible. Anyone who doesn't commit to the process was
obviously never worthy in the first place.
"And along with this comes the belief that from difference comes
superiority, no matter the cost. There is simply nothing to be
learnt from those other distributions, and any suggestions
otherwise should be met with ridicule. Certainly don't accept that
those evildoer companies like Apple could get anything right, or
come up with ideas worth pinching. If anyone suggests that the
option on the Linux desktop is inferior in any way, simply tell
them they're wrong!"
