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The issue in open source is with projects with not a strong leader ship , then you get some wanna be designer copying Apple because they read some book and now
by simion314 5y ago
The issue in open source is with projects with not a strong leader ship , then you get some wanna be designer copying Apple because they read some book and now he thinks that shit needs to look and feel different. Then you have developers that want to work on new cool stuff and not maintain existing code, so every few years you get a full reset but because of inexperience or incompetence the new version is buggy for a few years, it gets fixed but then the developers are bored and want to rewrite it using some new ideas/tech.
What would work IMO is someone with money paying the developers and the designer but force them do do customer support, you don't play with the new shit until most tickets are resolved and customers waiting for response are satisfied. maybe a paid support would help too.
- notriddle 5y agoDid you reply to the wrong comment? Because nothing you said has anything to do with any of what I wrote. It's not even a counterargument. It just reiterates the original point, which I don't entirely disagree with, but don't think has anything to do with GNOME's lack of market success. Market success has almost nothing to do with product quality. Well, okay, it does, but only in the sense that you need to not actually be a total fraud. You can get away with dismal quality as long as your marketing is good [1]. In formal terms, software development is a loser's game [2]. [1]: https://danluu.com/nothing-works/ https://danluu.com/nothing-works/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26660679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26660679 This implies that the churn you're complaining about has nothing to do with market success. You might not like it, but that doesn't mean the failure of Linux on the desktop is actually caused by it.