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That's just bullshit. The design committee of the major DEs/distros are already that benevolent dictator. What have you tried that you found it was mostly garba
by hd4 9y ago
That's just bullshit. The design committee of the major DEs/distros are already that benevolent dictator. What have you tried that you found it was mostly garbage? I used Unity just fine for about 5 years until the recent switch to GNOME and then I went to Fedora KDE, and was surprised at how solid it is. Maybe its just you/your hardware?
- tgragnato 9y agoKDE and GNOME are over-engineered, there's too much complexity in the wrong places and this leads to confusion. More specifically, KDE has too many configuration options, while GNOME is dictating how one has to do things. As an example: > "Documents is a document manager application designed to work with GNOME 3. It's included in the default set of core applications since GNOME 3.2." The file system has been used for decades as a document manager, why is this in the set of CORE applications ?
- CuriouslyC 9y agoThe complexity you denigrate in KDE is the result of its massive configurability. The average joe might find it offputting, but I like being able to completely control my environment. I suppose that mirrors Linux in general. If Linux had to be dumbed-down to make it a generally acceptable desktop environment, something else would invariably arise in its niche. I think things are just fine as is with MacOS as Unix for the masses, and Linux as unix for hackers.
- tgragnato 9y agoDo not misunderstand me, I do not want to denigrate anything, as I appreciate the potential of configurability, but this is not the average case of a public employee.