Dear list,
I have had reaction to some comments I have made, and I have to say
everyone has acted in a very gentile manner. Its good when we have
manners and can express our thought. Perhaps thats why we are hear
rather than opening the box and dancing with the latest iPhone or
Windows device.
My comments where about not being able to move freely (FOSS) between
desktops and choice your poison - yes including imperfect bloatware.
Unity anyone? Gnome? - I actually like Gnome 3 because it presents
those I will call, dancing people, with a desktop that has a beat,
for them. "Its cool and I can dance to it." to get American Bandstand
about it.
I was in no way attempting to take a swipe at anyone. I think most of
you got that, but apparently some people read things sideways. You can
expect that, if you make statements. Probably why I will never be in
politics.
If it was a perfect world, any distribution would be the same in
intent, regardless of desktop, meaning menus and software would be the
same. In my crazy world I envision ubuntu - astronomy, which of course
you can say the prospects are looking up for. Wait the big jokes come
later....
I see this as an advantage over dancing peoples devices and os's. Tell
us what you are and we have something for you already. Perhaps its as
easy as having interest groups modify based on available software,
they choose semi pro stuff like Ardour which seems to be tin-cup ware
now, and truly FOSS. But that may not be the desire.
Ubuntustudio does a great job of being a studio. No knocks at all. I
do not record at a studio professionally for a number of reasons. The
setups and the bookings take time, and your a number is one reason. I
have recorded in a professional hardware based studio and I managed the
talent for that, so my reasoning isn't superfluous. Sitting on the
stool talking into a $3000 microphone is a kick, but doesn't bring it
home economically. Studio time like that costs and has to be rolled
into the price.
I have alway been about bringing that cost down, and very Ubuntu about
what I do. "If a traveler wanders into a village, the village will see
to his needs without a thought as to what they need." I believe Nelson
Mandella close enough.
My point is if you can encourage more people to explore their talent as
a photographer, graphic artist, and media producer, the world will be
better. If the distribution fits more people, if they can make sense
of it without a huge learning curve and yes, if they can dance around
the open box, so to speak, as humans tend to do then maybe we have
something. We have something, not just the geeks that watch their
machine efficiently eat up compute cycles for bragging rights. Thats
already there, enjoy your command line.
Often there is great resistance to the paradigm shifting, and there are
reasons and excuses not to move forward on it. It is a good deal of
work for everyone involved in a distribution to make a change, any
change, even a small one. A radical change in thinking even more so,
it can be disruptive or worse. So, I do not propose that and I never
will. Ubuntustudio is a great distribution and has been a great
distribution and probably will continue to be so for years to come.
That as they say is the bottom line, thank you Ubuntustudio. Period.
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