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>First of all, there is no such thing as an average user. Also, it is not relevant to the discussion. I care about what I want in a system, not what some imagin
by Karunamon 4y ago
>First of all, there is no such thing as an average user. Also, it is not relevant to the discussion. I care about what I want in a system, not what some imaginary users want.
In which case I hope you are prepared for software to get many times worse, because the software industry doesn't give a tuppeny fuck what you want in a system, they care what sells to the lowest common denominator. And that means slow, bloated electron web sites shoehorned into the desktop because the pool of mediocre JavaScript developers that can extrude a minimum viable product is huge compared to the pool of native developers of any language.
And it will continue this way for as long as it's accepted. So, forever basically, because the average user you claim doesn't exist will put up with anything placed in front of them without significant enough complaint to impact profits.
- cardanome 4y agoDebian packages are maintained by volunteers, the software industry has nothing to do with this.
- Karunamon 4y agoOpen source is part of the industry. You keep trying to hand wave this relatively straightforward point: users are already used to, and accepting of, slow and bloated applications. Therefore, the downsides that app containerization introduces are irrelevant to most people that will use them.