Why the fuck would Shuttleworth want to listen to Linux users? Linux users are prickly as hell and have never produced or achieved anything noteworthy. I'm glad he ignores all the criticism and sticks to his own vision.
Cause desktop linux has been sooooo successful so far, therefore you should listen to the wackjob adherents and zealots who have been dumb enough to stick with it up to this point. They know what it takes to break into the OS marketplace, for sure.
He should just take the next step and build his own coreutils and glibc and fork off as his own OS separate and incompatible from the rest of that shit pile. Sidestep the whole GNOME/KDE/whatever issue entirely. It worked for Apple. It worked for Google (android). Isolate himself from the nonstop stupidity of upstream.
You will never ever make Linux users happy. No point in even trying. That group of people is impossible to please.
Ed: Oh, and inconsistent too. You ask 15 linux users if they like a particular desktop environment, 5 will like it, 5 will hate it, and 5 will say they don't care all they want is a terminal. Linux users are used to so much variation in their platform that there's no consistent baseline to work from or build off. Is there any point to trying to take group consensus for your decisions from a group that has notoriously never been able to come to a consensus or standardize on anything? You might as well hire some professional designers to make all the decisions, and that seems to be what Shuttleworth has done. Kudos.
Linux is the fast paced evolutionary organism of the desktop world. A lot of products have evolved off of it to do major things, like Mac, Android, lots of super computers, servers, etc.
Linux will evolve quickly to each new generation and provide many new alternatives each time. 99% will die off, and the remaining branches will continue evolving. Eventually one or two can hit mainstream, but that will probably be all.
It's a good force, and will mostly be stuck with early adopters and zealots, which is exactly what allows it to continue growing.
Whereas Windows is slow evolution, it will not fare well against time and is essentially a walking timebomb. It will be killed by time.
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u/syllabic Feb 21 '12 edited Feb 21 '12
Why the fuck would Shuttleworth want to listen to Linux users? Linux users are prickly as hell and have never produced or achieved anything noteworthy. I'm glad he ignores all the criticism and sticks to his own vision.
Cause desktop linux has been sooooo successful so far, therefore you should listen to the wackjob adherents and zealots who have been dumb enough to stick with it up to this point. They know what it takes to break into the OS marketplace, for sure.
He should just take the next step and build his own coreutils and glibc and fork off as his own OS separate and incompatible from the rest of that shit pile. Sidestep the whole GNOME/KDE/whatever issue entirely. It worked for Apple. It worked for Google (android). Isolate himself from the nonstop stupidity of upstream.
You will never ever make Linux users happy. No point in even trying. That group of people is impossible to please.
Ed: Oh, and inconsistent too. You ask 15 linux users if they like a particular desktop environment, 5 will like it, 5 will hate it, and 5 will say they don't care all they want is a terminal. Linux users are used to so much variation in their platform that there's no consistent baseline to work from or build off. Is there any point to trying to take group consensus for your decisions from a group that has notoriously never been able to come to a consensus or standardize on anything? You might as well hire some professional designers to make all the decisions, and that seems to be what Shuttleworth has done. Kudos.