Dang, Steve, it's official... you are the devil's advocate's assistant...lol...
I do agree wit you and those that stand for variety, diversity, choices-availability and freedom. What I have been trying to figure, is a way of having a distro dedicated of acting as a life-saver, a safe and easy to cross bridge for windows dissidents eager to cross the waters to the shores of linux. It has never and it will never be my intention to even suggest to turn linux into anything other than what it is: linux. If it looks like windows, feels like windows, works like windows and behaves like windows, then it is NOT linux. It is bloody windows. Tda ;) On 14 Jul 2017 06:46, "Steve Litt" <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:25:03 +0800 > Guang Chao <guang.chao.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > But on the downside, open source is so fragmented. See how many > > distro there are. How many desktop manager. How many projects doing > > the same thing. Instead of the large majority focusing on only few > > good ones, programmers are scattered doing their own version of what > > they want. > > To me, this is the best thing about Open Source: The "fragmentation". > I'll bet you few on this list would enjoy using Slackware or Funtoo. I > doubt many Slackware or Funtoo people would enjoy Xubuntu. All work > great, when they fit your workflow. > > As far as Desktop Managers, I bet there are 20 or more great ones out > there. On my Daily Drive Desktop I use Openbox plus dmenu. LXDE on my > laptops. I have friends who love KDE. No single user interface would > satisfy us both. I have friends who use twm and fvwm. That's too close > to the metal for my taste, but they love them. > > I recently moved to Devuan and Void Linux because I don't want systemd > on my computer. No problem, Open Source gives us the choices we need to > have the computers we want. > > You mentioned focusing only on the few good ones. I'd say they're all > good, except the ones that crash and surprise. I'm glad we have all > these choices. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > July 2017 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business > http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users >
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