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I just witnessed how complete ecosystems are destroyed all the time in the name of incremental updates. Some prominent example are Python3, Gnome3 or KDE4. Ever
by sprash 7y ago
I just witnessed how complete ecosystems are destroyed all the time in the name of incremental updates.
Some prominent example are Python3, Gnome3 or KDE4. Every time such a transition takes place lots of people that are not full time programmers but are using and creating in the FOSS realm mainly in their spare time have to spend a lot of time to adjust to the radical changes. And every time some useful legacy software just gets lost because the maintainers don't bother with porting and just scrap the thing altogether. A permanently moving target makes FOSS that is dependent on many hobbyists just impossible. Just stop changing things all the time. FOSS is clearly reliant on hobbyists and those usually have real jobs and other things to do in their life.
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y agoThe real KDE isn't dead: [1] http://trinitydesktop.org/ http://trinitydesktop.org/ For a distro built around that [2] https://www.q4os.org/ https://www.q4os.org/ And if you absolutely can't live without the look, or just wanting to make fun of people looking over your shoulder: [3] https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/ https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/ The funny thing about that stuff is it works better with multimonitor setups than every other environment which followed later. By that i mean laptops in docking stations with one or two external displays, not necessarily the same size and resolution, and hotplugging. But how do i dare to speak of that when the herd moved on and bleats bitrotten!,deprecated!,unsafe!,unsupported!,obsolete! /me mumbles something about stoned sheeps which obviously had too much of the wrong weeds...