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Depends on who you ask it may or may not be a con, I myself have been using it only for a week by now and for the most part it works very well it especially for a Linux newbie like me, not having to edit a config file with text editor but with GUI instead is pretty nice ( I made that gtk theme and floorp theme in the screenshot almost from scratch and it's a huge pain in the ass, dont know if CSS is a bad language or not but it probably make me hate CSS ). So I guess it's a pro for me