Comment 304 for bug 668415

" they seem to be doing quite a good job in many cases"

They're not, the windows ui is HORRIBLE, take a look a the control panel for that mess, have you ever had to actually support people doing things with it?

"and are popular for a reason."

That's a fallacy, known as argumtum ad populum, by the same standard all high quality restaurants should coat everything in grease and fat and oil because hey, McDonalds is popular therefore it is good thing to do.

http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/06/product-loyalty-consumers-mistake-familiarity-with-superiority/

This is not a race to the bottom, also what happened to open source, is there really no one out there who has the skills to move the icons from one side of the screen to the other?