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90% of Ubuntu's mistakes are "a little of column A, a little of column B". As in, they sometimes have good ideas, and then just entirely butcher the implementa
by DiabloD3 3y ago
90% of Ubuntu's mistakes are "a little of column A, a little of column B".
As in, they sometimes have good ideas, and then just entirely butcher the implementation: either they do it directly (Unity and Mir's in-house development), or they adopt an external source of bad implementations (Redhat's pulseaudio and systemd initiatives; both good ideas on paper, but then just become a thorn in everyone's side for a decade until better alternatives appear ).
- George83728 3y agoIn the case of systemd, I think most of the thorns have been ironed out and I don't see a competitor taking over anytime soon. With pulseaudio you're right though, thank goodness for pipewire.
- DiabloD3 3y agoSystemd basically became its own in-place rewrite. Theres still a lot of thorns in it, but, for example, Debian's build of it just strips it down to only working parts; everything else is either optional or replaceable with pre-systemd parts.