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Sigh, here we go again. These keep popping up and a few months later the projects are dead again because it turns out this isn't all that feasible without both
by oneplane 4y ago
Sigh, here we go again. These keep popping up and a few months later the projects are dead again because it turns out this isn't all that feasible without both massive engineering capacity and an ecosystem to go with it.
Most of them that manage to get to the point of a UI that doesn't look like Fischer-price fail on the ecosystem (i.e. they have no ecosystem at all, or they try to shoehorn an existing one on top like a standard ports/apt/yum repo from another distro).
Besides that, the FUD in the README doesn't really help anyone since the masses care very little, and even if they did care, they almost never have what it takes to look at the sources, and even the small subset that does is practically not even checking a single package's sources.
If they just stuck to a "we want something that feels like 2005 apple" tagline it would have been a fine project to fiddle with for fun, but as soon as grand statements are made ("reinvent the Mac") we're back into generic "things few people care for"-territory.
- charlie0 4y agoAh yes the whole "we are going to reinvent this", when "this" has taken decades and 100s of millions of dollars to build. I appreciate the efforts, but good luck.
- jackson1442 4y agoAgreed. And even in their cherry-picked screenshot there are several UI bugs/inconsistencies that would drive me insane as a daily user. I'll just take KDE plasma.
- smm11 4y agoI'll be good if that Linux install I did in maybe 2000 that used full-screen Navigator as the file manager and desktop itself came back to life.