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Can anyone recall a similar situation with a different piece of system software? Where it was shipping as a default and then was publicly questioned as to its

• opan 7y ago
  New Windows versions, maybe. Or to keep more relevant, Wayland.
• VLM 7y ago
  Gnome Bash shell Pulseaudio The earliest days of grub bootloader, which is baroque complex compared to the LILO everyone used for years previous. Classic nvi as default vi (as opposed to vim) Some of the turn of the century weirdness around xfree86 and x.org fork battle Frankly, worship of POSIX was always tiresome to deal with.
  • marcosdumay 7y ago
    And the classical egcc vs. gcc, but this one is older than Debian. Anyway, Gnome was eventually downgraded into "an alternative"; Bash is not the default Debian default shell anymore, it's only default for interactive sessions; Pulse is impossible to get ride of nowadays and still impossible to use; the Grub one kept going until Grub2 that was actually better than LILO; vim won, hands down, as it should; everybody gave up on xfree86 once x.org become better. Except for pulse, as soon as the preferred alternative became better than the one the change-resistant people wanted, resistance simply vanished. Pulse is outed on the above example because well, it never became better than the alternatives, but still there was never any sizeable resistance, just some noise or lack of it.
• bitwize 7y ago
  HAL was widely used in the 2000s, and virtually nobody uses it now, as its functionality could be -- and was -- much more simply implemented inside udevd.