>From the user perspective this is simply a massive regression. Used to have an environment that worked out of the box and did the expected things, without being forced to think about it. There were rough edges, but they were improving, one had a real sense of progress. Now both KDE and gnome have gone all modern Art on us, and things that used to be simple are often changed beyond recognition or entirely missing. Users have to make conscious choices, and curate their own experience. what comes in the box, in most cases, is now broken, puzzling opto-tactile sculptures. I used to try to advocate for others to use linux, but with the massive regressions of the past year or two, I just cannot do it with a straight-face any more. It currently just looks like the efforts are fragmenting in all directions, and as a whole, we are losing mountains of effort to lost causes. While I don't see any facts to support the view...
my only faint hope is that in a year or two it will settle down, and something usable will come out of it. On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Nick Accad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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