And that is his point. The distro does not matter anymore, it is the GUI and the apps that people care about, not the underlying engine.
I do not agree with the adapt or die concept here. The point of having different DEs was to have choice: you do not like Gnome, there is KDE, too pretty? Use XFCE. But what happened is that most distros standardized on Gnome and invested time and money to make sure the apps work well with it, and then the Gnome devs came and said: time to change everything. Sounds familiar? Users are complaining right and left, and the Gnome devs are refusing to acknowledge them, and the distros are not listening except Mint and the others who did not default to Gnome. I refuse to adapt to something I do not like, I do not have to accept death as the only alternative, I can switch (thank you XFCE, KDE...), I can fork (thank you Mint), instead of adapting to the environment, I can change the environment (thank you GPL). -nick -----Original Message----- From: Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:57:34 To: Montreal Linux Users Group<[email protected]> Reply-To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Blog entry on the MLUG listserve website. _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
