Shuttleworth Calls Ubuntu Performance Art, Calls Out Critics

darthcamaro writes "Mark Shuttleworth has taken a lot of heat for Ubuntu's decision to use Unity, to move away from Wayland and about its stance on the community distros like Kubuntu. In a new interview Shuttleworth shoots back claiming no matter what he does people will always find fault due to...'competitive pressures.'"

Comments

Performance Art?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, the distro is a regular comedy.

Re:He has a point, no?

[serviscope_minor]

have never yet had a straight answer as to what is so wrong with X11.

1. It was made by old people.
2. It works.
3. It's boring.
4. It's legacy.
5. It was bloated in 1987 and it's bloated now.
6. It was slow in 1987 and it's slow now.
7. It bogs down my Sun 3/60 so I don't trust it on my quad core i7.
8. Unix domain sockets have inexplicably high overhead and latency.
9. It's legacy.
10. It works so it's boring (still).
11. It's still legacy.
12. Did I mention legacy yet?
13. It has some old and little used APIs still hanging around for who ever needs them so we must nuke the entire thing from orbit because those old APIs must naturally be clogging up the entire thing because of legacy.
14. It doesn't look enough like Windows 3.11^W95^H8^XP^W^WOSX^WiOS.
15. It allows window managers which puts the user first and allows them to bend the system to its will.
16. It supports networking so every request has to go round the world via satellite makeing it slow.
17. It supports network transparency which no one uses (no you don't I said no one uses it so you can't be telling the truth and anyway you're only 1% of the users so who cares).
18. This one time X crashed so it sucks.