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Did 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 th
by notriddle 5y ago
Did 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.