I don't honestly know about OpenJDK/IcedTea (The open-source reference implementation of Java.), but other open-source projects, even though they get a fair share of vulnerabilities, fix them quickly (look at openssl, or Linux kernel). Oracle Java does NOT fix security bugs quickly. That's the problem.
Yep, that's my viewpoint. Nobody chooses to use it - so what? Every year, there's more functions, more diversity, more stability, and whatever I usually use works for me since 2008 or so.
Firefox is still alive and well, and on my Linux installation the GUI hasn't changed a bit since the 3.6 days. The menubar is just the same.
You are also forgetting KDE, as it implements traditional desktop elements and so is inconvenient for your theory. Actually, with little tweaks it can resemble anything but Unity: MacOSX, Gnome2, Windows XP, Win7, etc.
If you are looking for a good WM in the sphere of Unity/Gnome3/KDE, you should re-evaluate what you want from a WM.
If you are looking for a good DE, I find KDE more than satisfactory, especially if you start by the minimal package and only install apps you like.
And yet I still manage to run some of the apps written in KDE3 era. (But everybody switched to Qt4 in the past 4 years anyway.) Compat libs are still there.
And it's a catch-22 because all that software doesn't happen magically, it has to have users interested for it. And for users to be on Linux and interested , well, they have to have all that software on linux working. Loop.
I can't manage to notice that Ubuntu or Mageia or Fedora stopped shipping because bam, Linux Desktop is killed by MacOS X. Can you tell us why exactly is Linux dead?
(And why would we trust Icasa anyway? It's not like he actually did anything of note or made the right choices in the last 4 years or so.)
Two questions:
1. What were you smoking when you made the distro? I want that.
2. How do you resolve conflicts of libraries and package managers? Or... you don't?
How are you supposed to sing the "We have pics of Gossip Girl and we'll be in touch/you suck,/Bad Horse!"? To say that it doesn't match the rhythm is to say it very, very lightly.
Yeah, and the hierarchical menu is replaced by a quite ugly-looking clustertrick. Yes, on Fedora too.
Yeah, you can get a semblance of it if you go to the right and click the categories, but let's be honest, there's a big problem with it, it's less parsable by eyes, and most of all - Shell is an interface for touch users without those touch users existing.
Oh, really?
The ecosystem of multiple distros has existed from around 1993, and I am sure that it is pretty damn stable.
There are a few distros which have the most coverage (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, maybe Mageia), ones that are always ignored, but live on their own (Slackware, Arch, Gentoo), and endless clones of those more useful (Mint, Fedora respins, ROSA, etc...). The system is fine, everyone chooses what they please to. Debian is slow, Fedora is bleeding-edge, Ubuntu is non-upstream, news at eleven.
Leave dpkg alone. It's a good tool. You can say that apt needs rewriting to accompany your vision, or synaptic, or that repositories need to be organised that way like Github is. Fine, I agree with it, but it is not the biggest thing to do in the community. (And look at Gentoo's portage system, it looks similar.)
The top games (or any major games outside FOSS or indie-bundles) are not available for Linux NOT for the reason of fragmentation. They are not available because there are too few users, and, until Steam's Linux release, no easy way to reach them.
Again, regarding your passages about Deb's sluggishness: it is very, very much known that Debian is slow. You simply can't expect them to pick up the latest and greatest, that's how they work. And yet, Linux Mint made Cinnamon for Deb-testing available, and you are free to download it. Maybe you are content with not looking?
XP is being phased out.
Also, Linux is written as Linux.
Also, almost every problem that Linux has can be attributed to lack of people's demand. Especially better support.
Also, of all things, I can still run an app up to a decade old (RTCW/Enemy Territory) and have it run just fine, aside from occasional hijinks with audio.
People on Linux prefer to live on a constant 6-month-to-3-years upgrade schedule. Software reflects it.
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I don't honestly know about OpenJDK/IcedTea (The open-source reference implementation of Java.), but other open-source projects, even though they get a fair share of vulnerabilities, fix them quickly (look at openssl, or Linux kernel). Oracle Java does NOT fix security bugs quickly. That's the problem.
Yep, that's my viewpoint. Nobody chooses to use it - so what? Every year, there's more functions, more diversity, more stability, and whatever I usually use works for me since 2008 or so.
And where did LibreOffice go on that matter?
Not only male, but male living virgins, which is kind of... Unusual.
Firefox is still alive and well, and on my Linux installation the GUI hasn't changed a bit since the 3.6 days. The menubar is just the same.
You are also forgetting KDE, as it implements traditional desktop elements and so is inconvenient for your theory. Actually, with little tweaks it can resemble anything but Unity: MacOSX, Gnome2, Windows XP, Win7, etc.
That said, any OS is hard for the computer-illiterate.
If you are looking for a good WM in the sphere of Unity/Gnome3/KDE, you should re-evaluate what you want from a WM. If you are looking for a good DE, I find KDE more than satisfactory, especially if you start by the minimal package and only install apps you like.
And yet I still manage to run some of the apps written in KDE3 era. (But everybody switched to Qt4 in the past 4 years anyway.) Compat libs are still there.
So, is WASAPI or Directsound right this time on windows? Maybe ASIO? sigh.
And it's a catch-22 because all that software doesn't happen magically, it has to have users interested for it. And for users to be on Linux and interested , well, they have to have all that software on linux working. Loop.
I can't manage to notice that Ubuntu or Mageia or Fedora stopped shipping because bam, Linux Desktop is killed by MacOS X. Can you tell us why exactly is Linux dead? (And why would we trust Icasa anyway? It's not like he actually did anything of note or made the right choices in the last 4 years or so.)
It's elitism.
By the time you beat the dragon, you become the dragon.
Two questions: 1. What were you smoking when you made the distro? I want that. 2. How do you resolve conflicts of libraries and package managers? Or... you don't?
It turns out pop-up explainations or icons aren't for you.
How are you supposed to sing the "We have pics of Gossip Girl and we'll be in touch/you suck,/Bad Horse!"? To say that it doesn't match the rhythm is to say it very, very lightly.
Fifteen ain't fifty. Read the numbers a bit more carefully.
The meter shows me the mods' absolute indifference.
Don't call him buddy, dude.
Yeah, and the hierarchical menu is replaced by a quite ugly-looking clustertrick. Yes, on Fedora too. Yeah, you can get a semblance of it if you go to the right and click the categories, but let's be honest, there's a big problem with it, it's less parsable by eyes, and most of all - Shell is an interface for touch users without those touch users existing.
Oh, really? The ecosystem of multiple distros has existed from around 1993, and I am sure that it is pretty damn stable. There are a few distros which have the most coverage (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, maybe Mageia), ones that are always ignored, but live on their own (Slackware, Arch, Gentoo), and endless clones of those more useful (Mint, Fedora respins, ROSA, etc...). The system is fine, everyone chooses what they please to. Debian is slow, Fedora is bleeding-edge, Ubuntu is non-upstream, news at eleven. Leave dpkg alone. It's a good tool. You can say that apt needs rewriting to accompany your vision, or synaptic, or that repositories need to be organised that way like Github is. Fine, I agree with it, but it is not the biggest thing to do in the community. (And look at Gentoo's portage system, it looks similar.) The top games (or any major games outside FOSS or indie-bundles) are not available for Linux NOT for the reason of fragmentation. They are not available because there are too few users, and, until Steam's Linux release, no easy way to reach them. Again, regarding your passages about Deb's sluggishness: it is very, very much known that Debian is slow. You simply can't expect them to pick up the latest and greatest, that's how they work. And yet, Linux Mint made Cinnamon for Deb-testing available, and you are free to download it. Maybe you are content with not looking?
Pretty much.
XP is being phased out.
Also, Linux is written as Linux.
Also, almost every problem that Linux has can be attributed to lack of people's demand. Especially better support.
Also, of all things, I can still run an app up to a decade old (RTCW/Enemy Territory) and have it run just fine, aside from occasional hijinks with audio.
People on Linux prefer to live on a constant 6-month-to-3-years upgrade schedule. Software reflects it.
Making them martyrs for the "good deed"?
Works for Valve, apparently.