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So which is it? - This is going to be so awesome that "everybody and their brother can't stop themselves from tripping over their own feet to adopt". or - Wi

• jacquesm 7y ago
  Package managers and distro maintainers are not typically the end-users I have in mind. But if you can't see these groups as different then that's fine, but lets just leave it at that I, an end user was forced to adopt a set of system changes that I had no influence over because of RedHat's continued aspiration to put 'Linux on the desktop' when that had in fact happened ages ago. That you feel that adoption only happens because something is 'so awesome' is putting the horse behind the cart, stuff gets adopted all the time when better alternatives are available, all it takes is enough clout behind the push and it's a done deal. If technical merits were the deciding factor DR-Dos and OS/2 would still be around today instead of their lesser alternatives.
  • jraph 7y ago
    So, basically, people who maintain the system you use have made decisions on its evolution that you don't like. Keeping the system as it is would have been another, arguable, possibility, not the obvious thing to do. I can't see any solution to this problem for you apart from another system emerging with features you like (maybe from a fork). Which is not trivial.