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After Negative User Response, ChromeOS To Re-Introduce Support For Ext{2,3,4}
NotInHere writes: Only three days after the public learned that the ChromeOS project was going to disable ext2fs support for external drives (causing Linux users to voice many protests on websites like Slashdot and the issue tracker), the ChromeOS team now plans to support it again. To quote Ben Goodger's comment: "Thanks for all of your feedback on this bug. We've heard you loud and clear. We plan to re-enable ext2/3/4 support in Files.app immediately. It will come back, just like it was before, and we're working to get it into the next stable channel release."
You joke, but honest and constructive feedback from users is a huge part of developing quality software. Sometimes the feedback to certain changes gets a bit virulent and aggressive, but even then there might be bits of valuable information on how users view your software.
So keep up the feedback, and try to be as constructive as possible! :-)
Eat the rich.
Have you ever tried to use Android in a desktop context? I used it for a while on my netbook (in the form of Android-x86) and let me tell you, it sucked ass.
Android is made for the "singletasking one fullscreen app" paradigm of phones and tablets, with large touch-friendly controls for small-screen devices. There are a couple of Android-based laptops available, and you know what? They're not selling, because Android sucks for the desktop.
ChromeOS on the other hand, is made for the desktop paradigm of multiple simultaneous overlapping windows, with controls that are sized for mouse/touchpad usage, not direct touch usage. Sure, Chromebooks have large touchpads now for gesture controls that are kinda sorta similar to what you get on touchscreen devices, but I know I'd much rather use a touchpad than drag my grubby mitts all over the screen, leaving greasy fingerprints.
Tell us what Android does that ChromeOS currently can't do? Even the most popular apps for Android are severely limited (due to their small-scren touch interface designs), whereas ChromeOS runs the full-on Chrome browser, bells and whistles included. Everything you can do in Chrome on your Windows/Linux/Mac desktop, you can do in ChromeOS. Try that with Android.
Eat the rich.
Of course we're going to rant.
Fix the old shit first before pushing something new and similarly broken upon us so we at least have something stable to fall back upon.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.