Re:Not convinced by rolling releases
by wmf on Thursday March 07, 2013 @12:36PM
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I think he's talking about the "I have Ubuntu set up in some obscure configuration exactly the way I like it, now please never break anything" people. The "leet" users. For every leet hacker he sacrifices, Shuttleworth is expecting to gain 10 normal users.
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Heh, I fall somewhere into that group in that I think Unity is terrible. That said, I do basically agree with most everything that he says in the article. No one is ever going to get exactly what they want in a project as large as Ubuntu. That's why there's Mint :D
Time will tell whether the Unity gamble was worth it. Personally I don't think they will be able to keep up with Apple/Android/Microsoft in Mobile, but I thought those companies were leaving a bit of a void in the PC power user field that Ubuntu could have run wild in. We'll see if he's right, but I think ubuntu will only ever grab the 'hobbyists' in the mobile market, his dreams of major market-share across PC/mobile/tablet are pipe-dreams IMO. And for each person like me that moves on, I just don't see there being 10 others that will now fill in behind me.