On Monday 18 December 2006 15:47, Grant wrote: > I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > personally still love Gentoo.
there are always several phases in the life of a distri. Beginning, when it becomes 'cool' and a sudden surge in users, some time of high popularity, a decline, and at the end, only the users who are really 'the right ones' for that kind of distri are left. So the 'always using the cool thing' users are gone and the 'we are using what the cool guys were using' crowd is leaving now. So what? Are they important? No. At some point ubuntu will suffer the same. And then the next cool distro de jour. Some decline in user interest is normal - and a healthy process. Because it removes the 'I use it because it is cool' and 'I use it because everybody else uses it' type of users. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
