You misread me. I meant that Windows 7 works the way you want to work, which I compared to my preferences in the next sentence. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

Another bit I forgot to add: what about religious people in the insurance industry who oppose providing birth control?

By providing insurance I would still be providing birth control, but simply by proxy. Also, I believe that considering birth control part of "standard healthcare" is the real problem. Birth control is a completely optional thing to begin with and it is not necessary for the health of citizens. There are some people who require certain types of contraception for legitimate medical problems, and those should be covered, but I don't see the underlying logic for providing birth control for the purpose of exploiting a reproductive (and, to some people, sacred) act for fun.

Maybe it doesn't have a saddle, yes, but it could have something at least as comfortable. There isn't only one way to build a working bike after all.

And you're wrong about "removing support for installing your own saddle". How many freaking times do people have to bring up extensions support? It's RIGHT THERE in GNOME 3. All you do is go to the extensions web page, click install on the one you want, and you're set! You can get nearly any feature you want that way. It's really not that hard. You don't even have to log out.

GNOME 3 does both of those features. Also, it works the way you want it to work. Personally, I prefer the way GNOME 3 is designed. Tomato, toe-mah-toe I guess.

The 3DS does have a built-in music player already, if you didn't notice. It support MP3 as well as M4A and it lets you share the names of your most-listened-to songs via streetpass. It's not exactly full-featured and it's mostly meant as a toy, but it's still there.

As for the other things you suggested... Yeah... I wish the 3DS could have user-developed applications as well.

If I had mod points I would give them all to you. GNOME 3 is, honestly, the most easily customizable desktop yet. People ask for customization, GNOME 3 gets extensions. People see extensions and say "my OS should work out of the box"... Well no OS does that. People will never be satisfied and just want something to complain about, I guess.

That's a bad analogy because it implies that these extensions are required to use GNOME 3. They are not. GNOME 3 is functional without any of these extensions. In fact, I only use one. Your analogy implies that, to do anything with the OS, you have to install an extension. This is completely false. It might make it easier or more comfortable for some people, yes, but it is absolutely not required.

I'm pretty sure that EVERY OS requires some sort of customization after installing to get it to work the way you want. Have fun looking for an OS that suits every single person's needs immediately!

Scratch that, not "both of you". Only the person I'm replying to.

Actually both of you have the problem completely wrong. The problem is exactly what you're saying. I am a Catholic and, as such, I do not believe that birth control should be used. If I were in that position you said, where I have to provide someone else with birth control, I'd be violating my conscience by supporting something that I'm religiously obligated to not support. If they acquired the birth control through some other method then that would be fine. However, as a Catholic, I simply would never give someone something like that. That's their problem, not mine. That's why it violates the freedom of religion. By forcing me and other Catholics to give someone an object that I feel is immoral, it's forcing me to compromise my religious values. That should never happen in any reasonably free society.

Roman Catholicism has a very large history with that, actually. Many saints were great thinkers and wrote several books and papers about philosophy and many other types of study. I'm no expert on the subject, but you'd be very surprised if you took a look at what Catholics have done in a scholarly sense.

In fact, believe it or not, Catholics are encouraged to question their own faith. I know, that sounds crazy, right? Well we are, as we believe that, through constant research and questioning, we'd end up back at Catholicism again anyway (many have tried and failed to escape our religion's dogma through logic). You can say that many things that Catholics believe are illogical, and you'd have a right in saying that, but every single one of our beliefs is only there for a logical reason. We don't have a single belief that's there "because God told us so". We believe that God has a reason for every single thing he said and, unlike many other religious Christian groups, we actively question it.

You mean people who don't know that you can get malware from ads like this?

I use an adblocker not because I don't like supporting websites but because there's no way I'm risking the chance of an infection like that.

Vista wasn't crap, though. For me it was perfectly usable. It had a few quirks here and there but doesn't every OS? Not only that but what's so bad about liking GNOME 3?

Oh, and could you please use more profanity? You're coming off as too mature for me to handle.

This is being blown way out of proportion. We're all acting like this means that Fedora is dropping GNOME 3 for MATE or something crazy like that. From what I can tell they're simply just porting the packages to Fedora, nothing more. Maybe they'll offer a version with MATE as the default configuration, but this doesn't show any signs of replacing GNOME 3 in the future. Lets be realistic and read the articles, folks.

Also, unrelated, but I feel like the GNOME 3 hate is really blown out of proportion. Sure, some users were driven away, but the exact same thing happened with GNOME 2 and people called it trash and crap and whatever else. By the time that GNOME 3 is mature and more stable, it will have a large userbase again. I can guarantee it. I, personally, really love it as it is, especially how easily extensible it is. I don't know another desktop that allows so many customization options through extensions like that. You can really change near everything with a little tweak and you can write one yourself in minutes.