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Not labeled on/off, the toggle just changes between green and blue.
I miss the days when buttons had words on them instead of hieroglyphics.
Both was good. Both is an option. People seem to forget.
It's difficult to separate 'you like how things worked when you were fifteen' from honest appreciation of how much Windows XP era design was just better. Not the giant-head video player, or the Fisher-Price color scheme, but like-- remember when things looked like things? Remember when each icon was allowed to be a different color? We let people shit up plain text with sculpted multicolor emoji spam, but the parts that do stuff better be all one shade of gray sharply delineated from another shade of gray.
I installed Fedora Linux recently and have no idea if I enabled or disabled 3rd party repositories
It is no longer just scumbag design it has become standard design
It's still scumbag design.
The scumbags are winning.
But if they have nothing to gain ... yeah actually I think that's worse somehow...