Re:Fragmentation Is Why Desktop Linux Failed [video]
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday December 14, 2018 @07:59AM
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> Unite! At least converge to 2 big streams: Pro-Users (the ppl making jokes about shellscripts) and People (your mom)
I couldn't disagree more. As a community, developers and Linux developers in particular need to stop believing in the divide between the Glourious Developer Master Race and Ignorant Users What Think Their CD Tray Is A Cup Holder.
Linux Desktop has been pandering to this imagined notion of an "average user" for decades and it still sucks.
Here's what needs to be done: make the system simple (not easy) enough that it can be reasoned about, something that someone can look at and comprehend and build a model of its functioning so they can conform how it functions to their needs without reading C source code and 40 different text-based file formats and out of date man pages. Stop being a Rube Goldberg machine of interconnected disparate components.
I couldn't disagree more. As a community, developers and Linux developers in particular need to stop believing in the divide between the Glourious Developer Master Race and Ignorant Users What Think Their CD Tray Is A Cup Holder.
Linux Desktop has been pandering to this imagined notion of an "average user" for decades and it still sucks.
Here's what needs to be done: make the system simple (not easy) enough that it can be reasoned about, something that someone can look at and comprehend and build a model of its functioning so they can conform how it functions to their needs without reading C source code and 40 different text-based file formats and out of date man pages. Stop being a Rube Goldberg machine of interconnected disparate components.