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Bingo. The best "DE" or WM is the one that you virtually forget is there. The sad part is that the DE boys keep thinking that more eyecandy and bling will brin
by digi_owl 10y ago
Bingo. The best "DE" or WM is the one that you virtually forget is there.
The sad part is that the DE boys keep thinking that more eyecandy and bling will bring in the users and thus the third party software (apps? bah!) devs.
But as JWZ put it, Gnome (and most of the XDG related stuff) is beset with CADT. They fail to see that the one thing that has kept Windows where it is right now is that some company can still run their bespoke business code that was written back in the Windows 3.11 days.
Damn it, they can't even manage to do minor updates to glib and related without introducing subtle breakages.
And no, Flatpak and related is not a fix. That will just bring the specter of DLL hell to Linux.
- Twirrim 10y agoCADT?
- fnj 10y agoCascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers
- genpfault 10y ago"Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
- cr0sh 10y agoJWZ not happy w/ HN?
- digi_owl 10y agoI think he set that stuff up when this place was limited to ycombinator members, and they kept hitting his server because of his diary entries from the Netscape days.
- Analemma_ 10y agoUsual reminder here that jwz throws up porn if you have HN in the referrer. Clear your referrer or open a new tab.
- reitanqild 10y agoHehe, I was lucky then, I was just forwarded to stupid imgur images ridiculing hn ;-)
- Twirrim 10y agoInteresting. I've tended to call it the "ooohhh shiny" approach. Building new stuff and adding shiny graphics is always more enticing than housekeeping work.
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