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I've always agreed with this, though I've never seen this particular text or seen it stated this way. Linux is a miracle of free software, it shows that a thous
by freehunter 10y ago
I've always agreed with this, though I've never seen this particular text or seen it stated this way. Linux is a miracle of free software, it shows that a thousand people can come together and make a wonderfully complex system that actually works. But it is not elegant nor is it efficient, nor is there really any vision behind its creation. That's both a good thing (you can customize it and fork it to make it do anything you want) and a bad thing (lack of consistency). I do wish BeOS/Haiku had taken off. How different would the world be?
- duaneb 10y agoMac OS X would have serious competition for a "just get out of my hair and allow my to code to music" developer os.
- ploxiln 10y agoIt's true, a working linux desktop system is pretty complicated and somewhat inelegant. But somehow, the more popular competitors are even more inefficient. They spawn and exec processes slower, context switch slower, you can't run a minimal desktop environment on them, only the huge default one. ("min-win" being the minor exception here.) You can make a 50 MB bootable live USB with a minimal graphical desktop and a minimal web browser, based on linux. No such chance in less than a few gigabytes with the more popular alternatives. The bloat of actual linux distributions and desktops is mostly down to user demand.