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Early on in the days of OS X (perhaps the first 10 years or so), Apple made a good habit of focusing on one particular subsystem for massive changes, and then t
by MR4D 4y ago
Early on in the days of OS X (perhaps the first 10 years or so), Apple made a good habit of focusing on one particular subsystem for massive changes, and then tended to only make smaller scale changes across the rest of the OS. I wonder sometimes if that would be too hard to replicate as a Linux OS vender. Seems like the approach worked well and it could again.
- smoldesu 4y agoThat's kinda how Linux operates, just without a project manager. A good example is the audio subsystem Linux had 2 or 3 years ago - pretty bad, dropped Bluetooth connections all the time and broke on newer systems. So, the community came together and wrote PipeWire to fix these problems. The end-result is uncharacteristically impressive, in my opinion. Still though, the last thing I want the Linux community to do is drop everything to focus on $SOMETHING. The people using Linux are a diverse audience with many different use-cases, and naturally not all of them want another MacOS to babysit.
- MR4D 4y agoMy point is more that distributions don’t have to update everything in a release - they can focus their energy on certain new things rather than everything.