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How exactly does GNOME make money by not building a "classically usable" desktop? What about Ubuntu?
by benwaffle 3y ago
How exactly does GNOME make money by not building a "classically usable" desktop? What about Ubuntu?
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoThey benefit from their purer FOSS licensing behind GTK (in contrast to their competition, Qt) and place in history. They're working on a doomed experiment, on the fumes of enchantment of Apple design and the false hope that, maybe someday, "regular people" will use Linux. On a tablet or something. It'll all be tablets -- nobody'll even have desktops anymore. The hardware will converge, if you will. There will be a Unity of interfaces.
- Dalewyn 3y ago>maybe someday, "regular people" will use Linux. On a tablet or something. It'll all be tablets We already do, it's called Android.
- jrm4 3y agoCargo culting, kinda. They're trying to "innovate like Apple," and of course, it's not very easy to do that.
- kaba0 3y agoThey definitely do that for all those sweet.. UnixPorn screenshots, or what exactly?