It will take a hell of a lot more than pretty background pics and games to get people to convert to Linux.
Number 1 on that list is all the devs from the million other linux dists/clones coming together, stop the in-fighting, become organised (like canonical) and be under 1 leadership developing 1 product.
And number 2 is to fix the disaster that is the ever-changing UI and incompatibility between every damn app, which reinvents the UI wheel.
Bryan Lunduke has been correctly highlighting these issues (in "LFNW" or "Why Linux Sucks") for many years, and yet it always seems to fall on deaf ears.
So in short, the GPL is at fault here, along with all the messy politics coming from people behind linux.
There's only 1 great example of an organised and well-structured open-source project - and that's Mozilla!
It's popular because there's no politics and in-fighting and the million different clones of their products.
I honestly believe there are people out there, people like me, who are desperate to move off Windows and especially due to spyware in Win10, but can't because Linux is such a mess. And it has been since the very beginning when the hot-headed kid Linus went against the masters of OS design (Professors like Tanenbaum et al)
Every browser currently does that, including Firefox; so the networking stack is separate to the layout engine, and many tasks are offloaded on to the GPU, including CSS animations, etc. That's not what servo is about, it's in competition with gecko and webkit, not the rest of browser.
Even though Mozilla has miniscule of funding as compared to Google's Chrome, yet they are surprisingly in tandem with Chrome, and in some cases, exceed Chrome in innovation and implementation of HTML5/ES6/and CSS3/4 specs. Read the changelogs with every release to get a better idea.
Firefox does okay in benchmarks, but it feels slow compared to Chrome and even to some extent Edge. The problem is this lack of threading.
Again, an ignorant comment which shows you know little about Firefox and how Chrome/Edge work.
All browsers are heavily multithreaded, including Firefox, in which JS / DOM / network stack / chrome (xul) / etc are heavily threaded.
The problem is all other browsers are multi-process, so better able to utilise parallel resourcing and cpu; while Firefox is still single-process and only able to utilise a single core of a cpu.
Completely agree!!
Having worked in a waterfall model where devs and people are free to think and allocate their own time and brain power to implementing a project as a whole;
and then switching over to agile scrum, I realise innovation was dead.
Developers are now simply dictated to and have no real feedback except on saying how code should work, rather than looking at the bigger picture and from a users perspective.
I thought it was just that one company, then I moved on to a new company, a start-up environment which I thought would be innovative and not so money driven, but again using agile scrum - not only is it a subtle micro-management policy of daily stand-ups, but developers are treated like slaves and told micro details on how to implement the next tiny feature request, rather than let the developer use their own mind and free thought.
Agile is a great form of control over developers, and sadly most of them are sheep and have fallen for the trap.
No, homo's are simply mentally ill, and propagating their satanic sick disease to the minds of peace-loving families, and trying to destroy harmony in a family society.
One of the things that removing God from your life and society does, like an atheist society, is it encourages abnormality and any sickness can become the norm. Religious people who haven't sold-out to the devil, have a firm moral grounding in the peaceful values of the Bible, Quran, and Torah.
No, what's most disturbing about homo's is their sickness and mental illness - that's what us sane people are scared of, and how this satanic disease is spreading to peace-loving, family communities.
When you first created Linux, Windows was still primitive particularly in security and stability. But since then, and especially since Vista and 7, it has really matured in both security and stability, so...
Why don't you use Windows?
And if you are unhappy about some things, why not help Microsoft to improve it and steer them in the right direction?
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It will take a hell of a lot more than pretty background pics and games to get people to convert to Linux.
Number 1 on that list is all the devs from the million other linux dists/clones coming together, stop the in-fighting, become organised (like canonical) and be under 1 leadership developing 1 product.
And number 2 is to fix the disaster that is the ever-changing UI and incompatibility between every damn app, which reinvents the UI wheel.
Bryan Lunduke has been correctly highlighting these issues (in "LFNW" or "Why Linux Sucks") for many years, and yet it always seems to fall on deaf ears.
So in short, the GPL is at fault here, along with all the messy politics coming from people behind linux.
There's only 1 great example of an organised and well-structured open-source project - and that's Mozilla!
It's popular because there's no politics and in-fighting and the million different clones of their products.
I honestly believe there are people out there, people like me, who are desperate to move off Windows and especially due to spyware in Win10, but can't because Linux is such a mess. And it has been since the very beginning when the hot-headed kid Linus went against the masters of OS design (Professors like Tanenbaum et al)
Google will simply pay them off, no big deal, just like they have paid the US government and the EU over countless privacy-based violations.
Google is now one of the biggest bribers to the US Government... err, of course I mean lobbyists(!)
http://www.opensecrets.org/lob...
Clueless comment.
Chrome threads everything. Network, layout elements, compositing, JS, even GPU offloaded tasks.
Every browser currently does that, including Firefox; so the networking stack is separate to the layout engine, and many tasks are offloaded on to the GPU, including CSS animations, etc. That's not what servo is about, it's in competition with gecko and webkit, not the rest of browser.
Even though Mozilla has miniscule of funding as compared to Google's Chrome, yet they are surprisingly in tandem with Chrome, and in some cases, exceed Chrome in innovation and implementation of HTML5/ES6/and CSS3/4 specs. Read the changelogs with every release to get a better idea.
Firefox does okay in benchmarks, but it feels slow compared to Chrome and even to some extent Edge. The problem is this lack of threading.
Again, an ignorant comment which shows you know little about Firefox and how Chrome/Edge work.
All browsers are heavily multithreaded, including Firefox, in which JS / DOM / network stack / chrome (xul) / etc are heavily threaded.
The problem is all other browsers are multi-process, so better able to utilise parallel resourcing and cpu; while Firefox is still single-process and only able to utilise a single core of a cpu.
Here's a demo of Firefox utilising the upcoming electrolysis project in which the layout engine is separated from the chrome (browser ui).
Completely agree!! Having worked in a waterfall model where devs and people are free to think and allocate their own time and brain power to implementing a project as a whole; and then switching over to agile scrum, I realise innovation was dead. Developers are now simply dictated to and have no real feedback except on saying how code should work, rather than looking at the bigger picture and from a users perspective. I thought it was just that one company, then I moved on to a new company, a start-up environment which I thought would be innovative and not so money driven, but again using agile scrum - not only is it a subtle micro-management policy of daily stand-ups, but developers are treated like slaves and told micro details on how to implement the next tiny feature request, rather than let the developer use their own mind and free thought. Agile is a great form of control over developers, and sadly most of them are sheep and have fallen for the trap.
No, homo's are simply mentally ill, and propagating their satanic sick disease to the minds of peace-loving families, and trying to destroy harmony in a family society.
One of the things that removing God from your life and society does, like an atheist society, is it encourages abnormality and any sickness can become the norm.
Religious people who haven't sold-out to the devil, have a firm moral grounding in the peaceful values of the Bible, Quran, and Torah.
No, what's most disturbing about homo's is their sickness and mental illness - that's what us sane people are scared of, and how this satanic disease is spreading to peace-loving, family communities.
When you first created Linux, Windows was still primitive particularly in security and stability.
But since then, and especially since Vista and 7, it has really matured in both security and stability, so...
Why don't you use Windows?
And if you are unhappy about some things, why not help Microsoft to improve it and steer them in the right direction?