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"Simplicity" does imple trivial or easy though, at least to an extent.
by admax88q 5y ago
"Simplicity" does imple trivial or easy though, at least to an extent.
- alexwasserman 5y agoYes, I think that’s how I first read the headline - closer to a basic easy to use distro than an LFS style roll-your-own. If I told someone I’d found a simple distro, I wouldn’t expect them to prep to compile their own kernel
- scbrg 5y agoWell, blame English. It sucks (and so do all other natural languages). In software, I'd say that "simple" has come to mean "lack of complexity" rather than "easy". Presumably, the distribution's target audience is software enthusiasts of some sort.
- admax88q 5y agoI dunno I still disagree. If someone gave me a "simple" API for say networking. I would expect the API to be easy to use. But by your definition, I could give you an API such as "write(byte[])" which just puts bytes on the ethernet wire or into on the wifi radio. It's simple! It's not complex, there's only one API method with only one argument! But in reality, I'm just shifting complexity to the user. I only consider things simple if they truly reduce complexity rather than if they just shift the complexity to someone else.