Every distro has it's default. Yes, you can choose an alternative, but you're not guaranteed that the distro put any effort into that desktop other than including the packages. The default choice is their showroom and they go the extra mile to make sure everything is right.
As for the forks, if they have to fork a distro it proves my previous point on how little they care about the other desktop choices beyond simply packaging them with the distro.
Then there's the fact that you have to really know and want that alternative desktop to pursue it and be the kind of person who will go through the effort to reinstall this operating system you heard about just to try a desktop that may or may not work better than what you have.. So really, you haven't made much of an argument against my original post here.
The 'people' didn't choose Gnome, much in the same way the 'people' haven't chosen systemd. The distribution packagers chose to make Gnome their default and the 'people' once presented with a choice tend to stick to that choice.
Until the last 5-10 years there were only a couple of distro's that really took the effort to showcase KDE, mostly Mandrake and SuSE.
The sad thing was Gnome was never up to KDE's maturity and cohesion. It was launched and chosen as the default because of baseless fears over the licensing of Qt back in the 90's, not technical ability.
"You see, the court did indeed rule that I had no evidence my door had been broken and something was missing from my home, but do not let that distract you from the fact I have been robbed!"
You are delusional. The company went through 10 CEO's in 10 years! Each outgoing manager taking with them larger severance packages even as the company crumbled around them. Management destroyed that company.
It's always been a thing where a company needs some software package that nobody wants to deal with, the secretaries get it foisted upon them and actually excel at it until someone notices how much the company actually depends on that software and suddenly they hire a guy to take it over at 3 times the salary, pat the secretary on her head and tell her to get them all a coffee.
You must have never met Grace Hopper, who wrote the first compiler, or the women who programmed the ENIACs. Where would Apple be today without Smalltalk, co-developed by Adele Goldburg?
Honestly, in the environment at that time, did you even notice the women as people or did they all just lump into "secretary" in your head? Where they couldn't threaten you.
The funny thing is, if you go back 40-50 years, women dominated programming. Because it wasn't seen as a male career path, men didn't bother with it. People forget how many women were at the roots of early computer design and programming.
Now certain male brogrammers act like that history never existed and women have always been uninterested in tech, which is extremely self serving.
Nowhere in the article did they explain how that technical score was determined. Whether it was from academic records or just the impressions of the interviewers.
Regardless, they concluded that the overriding problem was that most women dropped out after 2-3 rejections, whereas men continued interviewing and that skewed their numbers.
The article goes on to point out that men who's voices were masked as women also had a tendency to do better than unmasked men. The big thing of note, however, was that women were more likely to drop out of the whole process after 2-3 bad interviews, whereas men would keep interviewing. It's not a matter of studying, or skill set, we need to give women the same levels of false confidence that men have in the face of constant rejection.
Your argument is the cousin of saying the Government has to search you on a daily basis, so you can exercise your 4th Amendment rights. It's ridiculous.
First, it's "bare" arms, not "bear". Second, nobody has ever protested the various knife regulations and bans that exist throughout the US. "Arms" in this case has always been interpreted as firearms.
You have a weird notion of reading comprehension. Or you're just dumb. The 3rd Amendment says the government can't quarter soldiers in your house without the owners permission. It makes no mention of any right to home ownership.
However, the government does have a number of laws ensuring equal access to housing, and provides funds to those who can't afford shelter on their own.. so you're still not disproving my argument.
The government also has a role in ensuring everyone has a free and unrestricted ability to exercise those rights. Such as how they organize and control voting rather than letting corporations restrict voting to whomever has the best credit rating (and wouldn't certain conservatives love that).
The government also forces cable companies to provide public access channels free to the community.
So.. why can't the government force gun makers to provide a free "Liberty" gun to any citizen who wants one?
You also don't need a holy book to pray, and fermentation happens quite naturally.
The closest analogy would be voting, and the government pays for that, establishes standards for the equipment and organizes volunteers to run the service. So.. why does Smith & Wesson get to hold my right to bare arms hostage to their profit margin again?
So, it's a right that can be exercised for free.. after you buy a series of machine tools, become a skilled gunsmith, build a lab to make some guncotton for the shells.. you're not exactly disproving my point there.
You know, I always wondered how something can be a "right" yet you have to pay a non-governmental body to exercise it. If gun ownership is indeed the absolute constitutional right that the NRA says it is, they should definitely be pushing for legislation to have every American issued a firearm.
How is a package manage cross platform when they don't even know how to package apps for a Fedora distribution yet? One would think, possibly, that questions of how and where to put apps and their dependencies in the various filesystems would be the first thing you find out, no? Or does it just chuck everything into opt?
You do not need a model release for news articles. Try again.
Also, you don't seem to be aware that Bollea tried and lost in Federal court to have the tape taken down, where the judge found it was protected by the First Amendment. That's when he went to Florida's state court.
Bollea will likely lose on appeal. The judge in this case is notorious for having her decisions reversed. The only reason Gawker has to file bankruptcy is because the judge refuses to hold off on payment of the award until the appeal goes through.
If it were wholly illegal, they would have had a criminal trial instead of a civil one. Publishing the tape was not a crime, in and of itself, due to it's newsworthiness.
How about, being gay, Mr. Theil not do business with a country that wants gay people dead? Or do you think either supporting these sorts of regime's is okay or that it's okay for gay people to lie about a fundamental show stopper in a business deal? Either way Mr. Theil is an asshole.
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Every distro has it's default. Yes, you can choose an alternative, but you're not guaranteed that the distro put any effort into that desktop other than including the packages. The default choice is their showroom and they go the extra mile to make sure everything is right.
As for the forks, if they have to fork a distro it proves my previous point on how little they care about the other desktop choices beyond simply packaging them with the distro.
Then there's the fact that you have to really know and want that alternative desktop to pursue it and be the kind of person who will go through the effort to reinstall this operating system you heard about just to try a desktop that may or may not work better than what you have.. So really, you haven't made much of an argument against my original post here.
The 'people' didn't choose Gnome, much in the same way the 'people' haven't chosen systemd. The distribution packagers chose to make Gnome their default and the 'people' once presented with a choice tend to stick to that choice.
Until the last 5-10 years there were only a couple of distro's that really took the effort to showcase KDE, mostly Mandrake and SuSE.
The sad thing was Gnome was never up to KDE's maturity and cohesion. It was launched and chosen as the default because of baseless fears over the licensing of Qt back in the 90's, not technical ability.
"You see, the court did indeed rule that I had no evidence my door had been broken and something was missing from my home, but do not let that distract you from the fact I have been robbed!"
You are delusional. The company went through 10 CEO's in 10 years! Each outgoing manager taking with them larger severance packages even as the company crumbled around them. Management destroyed that company.
If only Samsung would allow external flash storage on their top of the line phones again.
It's always been a thing where a company needs some software package that nobody wants to deal with, the secretaries get it foisted upon them and actually excel at it until someone notices how much the company actually depends on that software and suddenly they hire a guy to take it over at 3 times the salary, pat the secretary on her head and tell her to get them all a coffee.
You must have never met Grace Hopper, who wrote the first compiler, or the women who programmed the ENIACs. Where would Apple be today without Smalltalk, co-developed by Adele Goldburg?
Honestly, in the environment at that time, did you even notice the women as people or did they all just lump into "secretary" in your head? Where they couldn't threaten you.
The funny thing is, if you go back 40-50 years, women dominated programming. Because it wasn't seen as a male career path, men didn't bother with it. People forget how many women were at the roots of early computer design and programming.
Now certain male brogrammers act like that history never existed and women have always been uninterested in tech, which is extremely self serving.
Nowhere in the article did they explain how that technical score was determined. Whether it was from academic records or just the impressions of the interviewers.
Regardless, they concluded that the overriding problem was that most women dropped out after 2-3 rejections, whereas men continued interviewing and that skewed their numbers.
The article goes on to point out that men who's voices were masked as women also had a tendency to do better than unmasked men. The big thing of note, however, was that women were more likely to drop out of the whole process after 2-3 bad interviews, whereas men would keep interviewing. It's not a matter of studying, or skill set, we need to give women the same levels of false confidence that men have in the face of constant rejection.
Actually, I double checked and it is indeed bear arms. So you have the right to some ursine appendages.
Your argument is the cousin of saying the Government has to search you on a daily basis, so you can exercise your 4th Amendment rights. It's ridiculous.
Other than the lack of machine tools, a chemical lab, metal to fashion into a gun..
First, it's "bare" arms, not "bear". Second, nobody has ever protested the various knife regulations and bans that exist throughout the US. "Arms" in this case has always been interpreted as firearms.
You have a weird notion of reading comprehension. Or you're just dumb. The 3rd Amendment says the government can't quarter soldiers in your house without the owners permission. It makes no mention of any right to home ownership.
However, the government does have a number of laws ensuring equal access to housing, and provides funds to those who can't afford shelter on their own.. so you're still not disproving my argument.
The government also has a role in ensuring everyone has a free and unrestricted ability to exercise those rights. Such as how they organize and control voting rather than letting corporations restrict voting to whomever has the best credit rating (and wouldn't certain conservatives love that).
The government also forces cable companies to provide public access channels free to the community.
So.. why can't the government force gun makers to provide a free "Liberty" gun to any citizen who wants one?
You also don't need a holy book to pray, and fermentation happens quite naturally.
The closest analogy would be voting, and the government pays for that, establishes standards for the equipment and organizes volunteers to run the service. So.. why does Smith & Wesson get to hold my right to bare arms hostage to their profit margin again?
So, it's a right that can be exercised for free.. after you buy a series of machine tools, become a skilled gunsmith, build a lab to make some guncotton for the shells.. you're not exactly disproving my point there.
I can walk out into the street, stand on a corner and speak to my heart's content. You don't need a printing press to exercise your right to speech.
You know, I always wondered how something can be a "right" yet you have to pay a non-governmental body to exercise it. If gun ownership is indeed the absolute constitutional right that the NRA says it is, they should definitely be pushing for legislation to have every American issued a firearm.
Now this guy just needs to sue Gawker and Peter Theil will bankroll his lawsuit like he's bankrolling the guy who "invented" email!
How is a package manage cross platform when they don't even know how to package apps for a Fedora distribution yet? One would think, possibly, that questions of how and where to put apps and their dependencies in the various filesystems would be the first thing you find out, no? Or does it just chuck everything into opt?
You do not need a model release for news articles. Try again.
Also, you don't seem to be aware that Bollea tried and lost in Federal court to have the tape taken down, where the judge found it was protected by the First Amendment. That's when he went to Florida's state court.
Bollea will likely lose on appeal. The judge in this case is notorious for having her decisions reversed. The only reason Gawker has to file bankruptcy is because the judge refuses to hold off on payment of the award until the appeal goes through.
If it were wholly illegal, they would have had a criminal trial instead of a civil one. Publishing the tape was not a crime, in and of itself, due to it's newsworthiness.
How about, being gay, Mr. Theil not do business with a country that wants gay people dead? Or do you think either supporting these sorts of regime's is okay or that it's okay for gay people to lie about a fundamental show stopper in a business deal? Either way Mr. Theil is an asshole.