It's also worth nothing that Windows users (especially) and Mac users
are conditioned to view their computer and it's application as a
product that they are the end user of. It's not their fault, that's
how they were turned into customers in the first place. In the GNU /
Linux world it's very different. We have that community aspect that the
afore mentioned platforms largely lack.
It's the communal ownership of code that sets Linux apart and attracts
users who are willing, even excited, to contribute rather than
"consume."
All in all, the delay of Darktable 2.4.0 for Mac provides a great
opportunity to consider switching to The Freedom OS™
On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Romano Giannetti
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 14/01/18 17:02, Pascal Obry wrote:
Benjamin,
That's not the point. Take GIMP (it has been discussed recently)
there
is more users on Windows and almost no contributor for this platform
and so the port is hard to maintain.
Soon this will also be true for dt, a lot of Windows users are moving
to dt. Fine. But among them some are certainly computer scientist,
right? What are they doing? Nothing.
Pascal, without having any global data, I suspect that the sheer
difference of number of users makes this statement... difficult. In
my sample at my University, the percentage of windows user able to
compile a program (or that even know what that mean) is really lower
than the one in the Linux users. To the point that being us Linux
users around the 2%, we are the 50% of people compiling software and
doing bug hunting and reporting (more or less). Mac is more or less
midway... and we are an Engineering School.
Notice that this is not a negative comment on windows users ---
they're using what's more useful for them. So while I see why a Linux
user can try to (like myself) at least contribute in what he can, the
union of the set of windows users --- advanced hobbyst photographers
--- computer "geeks" will be smaller than the one you can find if you
change "windows" to "linux". And on the other hand, the number of
users is so much higher that the group that join the first two groups
here will easily overwhelm, in number, the full set of linux users.
Romano
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