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Thanks for your answer. So maybe we'd need some kind of poll to know what all of us collectively need. And I'm sure those who make Gnome (many at RedHat I thin
by wiz21c 4y ago
Thanks for your answer.
So maybe we'd need some kind of poll to know what all of us collectively need. And I'm sure those who make Gnome (many at RedHat I think) have an idea. So maybe there is some interest, or unfortunate planets alignment that makes "simple" users to be second class citizen. That is, Wayland, VR, tearing are not things that prevent one of completing a professional task so they just don't get fixed...
My point was that I see many area of improvements but none of them prevents me of being happy (I use my Linux DE 80% professional and 20% leisure; or 5% movies and 95% browser/coding). It seems that some of these areas are not on the improvement level for you but on the indispensable one. So as you said, there's some personal appreciation going on. So for me the equation is more like FLOSS quality + licenses >= proprietary quality + license. That is, I value the license difference more than the quality difference; hence I'm pretty happy with many sub standard tools :-)
So now, in your list, the tearing is clearly, for me, the most painful issue at the moment. Watching movies is a bit painful at times.
So in the end, well, ain't sure anything gonna change soon. But the sooner the better, I agree on that :-)
- pjmlp 4y agoRed-Hat has decided there is no money to be taken in Linux Desktop, the extent they improve GNOME is that even enterprises need some kind of basic GUI to manage their workstations. https://lwn.net/Articles/56947/ https://lwn.net/Articles/56947/
- Crysstalis 4y agoCanonical has seemingly also decided the same thing when they cancelled Unity. And I do not blame them. Has anyone you know actually paid for a Linux desktop, outside of buying some really basic and general enterprise support?
- pjmlp 4y agoBack in the year days of desktop dream it was common to buy Manadrake and SuSE in their respective CD/DVD software box. For example, https://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/05/03/vintage/ https://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/05/03/vintage/ But that was 20 years ago.