Re:The Year of Linux on Everything but the Desktop
by shmerl on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:50AM
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Unity isn't even the most popular DE today, and not the best one either. So judging the whole Linux desktop by Unity's shortcomings isn't fair.
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Re:The Year of Linux on Everything but the Desktop
by RandyRanderson on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:46PM
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I think in an ideal world you're right.
Unfortunately what most experience is the important thing. I constantly hear ppl praising how much better a 1000USD iPhone is than a 150 android phone that the manufacturer has barely finished the firmware on.
It's frustrating but they do have a point.
Re:The Year of Linux on Everything but the Desktop
by flukus on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:57PM
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> Unfortunately what most experience is the important thing. I constantly hear ppl praising how much better a 1000USD iPhone is than a 150 android phone that the manufacturer has barely finished the firmware on.
Now that you mention it, I wonder if this has the same root cause too, manufacturers/distros trying to differentiate themselves. In both cases they spend a lot of extra money to make "their OS" worse.