>> If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change how you think of it.
That is my new motto. Thanks :) On 13 December 2017 at 14:09, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: > What we are experiencing is not a new thing. Change is constant. Each new > release of software, for all things, comes with new bug fixes, new bugs and > new features. Some we need some we don't. > The pain we are feeling is a combination of lack of control combined with > the frequency of these changes. > Once upon a time we had to wait several years for a new release (take > Visual Studio as an example). Now we see new updates weekly and sometimes > daily. > Hopefully the pain we feel is shorter lived as a result. We can > communicate with the Devs much easier now. Often we can see the name of the > developer who checked in the code. We can comment on the codebase and raise > issues. > Take the recent icon colour change of VScode for example. For those who > were not watching, they changed the colour to orange (or green depending on > the branch). People were NOT happy. The Devs listened and in about a week > or maybe two it was back to the familiar colour. > Imagine having to wait 2 years to get your icon colour fixed or some other > life altering bug. > You can't make everyone happy all of the time. We are all at the whim of > the developers of the code we use. If you don't like that, you have > options. Feedback or change software. Or write your own. > If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change how > you think of it. > > Hmm, might make this a blog post. > > On 13 Dec. 2017 9:10 am, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 at 10:08 Grant Maw <[email protected]> wrote: > > Never thought I'd ever see myself switching to Linux but I have to say > that I'm starting to look very, very hard at it, for all the reasons that > Mike and the Gregs have outlined above. I just wonder if I REALLY need to > learn a new OS at my age ... life is too short :) > > > I bought a chromebox on a lark a while back. > > It said it needed a new OS so I clicked reboot. OS installation and reboot > was ~10 seconds. > > Le Sigh. > > I was boned by one of these updates in a customer meeting. It half > installs before it wants to reboot and that took out my WiFi. Windows said > it wanted to reboot - sure fine. 1 hour later... > > David. > > -- > David Connors > [email protected] | @davidconnors | https://t.me/davidconnors > | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363 <+61%20417%20189%20363> > > >
