Clark Block <clarkblo...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is OpenBSD developers's opinion about the private messages that I > quoted above?
I'm not an OpenBSD developer and I can't speak to their opinions but the dynamic in this thread resembles the one discussed in this excellent talk [1] by Evan Czaplicki, the creator of Elm. To be brief, it's far from uncommon for users to ask for features in a project where there's lots of history and context that they aren't aware of, and that the developers and leaders of the project may have discussed many times. Sometimes this comes with the assertion that their request is easy, or even that the developers are foolish for not prioritizing their request. In the case of OpenBSD, lots of people have probably popped up over the years asking why the project doesn't prioritize (what they see as) a "great desktop experience". I think the developers might be forgiven for not giving such queries much attention the nth time. A graphical installer accessible to a non-specialist user that installs a full-fledged desktop environment, a browser, and an office suite is certainly a thing some operating system projects provide. In a world where nothing has a cost, it might be abstractly _good_ for OpenBSD to have such a thing. But things do have costs. OpenBSD has different priorities than Windows, macOS, or Ubuntu, and orders of magnitude less in financial and developer resources. And even if code that did what you wanted appeared in the tree by magic, it would create a maintenance and support cost that the project would also have to sustain. I'll leave further inferences about this situation as an exercise for the reader. Evan S. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA
