managing choices
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Cost isn't only about money. It's also about the time people have to invest to pick the right choice. [...] If you want to see people having fun in reducing complexity, watch out for projects like [...] You are not removing complexity by reducing choices, at least not in my humble opinion. And you are supporting my points by your own examples. All the distributions you mentioned add to redundancy. And to help you to make a choice there are websites like distrowatch. For packages there are tools like debtags and adept. For people who are fed up with projects that try to produce a jack of all trades device there are minimalist approaches. For people who are easily lost there is Ubuntu. And if somebody tries on another window manager or another package management system, then its a good thing. P. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: managing choices
Am 26.12.2009 um 22:33 schrieb Patrick Freundt: You are not removing complexity by reducing choices, at least not in my humble opinion. Such statements make me feel like I want to run away and kiss Apple's Snow Leopard, which removes a lot of old cruft while maintaining full usability. For example, you no longer have the choice to run this OS on a PowerPC CPU, removing some 30% off the neccessary binaries. You no longer have the choice to use the Carbon API, removing some 20% of the required knowledge to code on a Mac. Older Cocoa API's are in the process of being removed as well. Again less choice, less header files, less libraries, less required knowledge - in short, less complexity. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
