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Gnome after version 1, definitely after version 2 is a symptom of the "software is never done" fallacy. After building a solid, performant and working desktop e

by dusted 3y ago

Gnome after version 1, definitely after version 2 is a symptom of the "software is never done" fallacy. After building a solid, performant and working desktop environment, instead of leaving it alone and start making other applications, they decided to just keep doing stuff.. and how do you continue improving something that's already finished ? You don't, because it's f*cking done! So what's else to do than just randomly screw with things. This is also seen in Firefox, Thunderbird, and the Windows operating systems. I switched to Mate when they made the first major screwup, but eventually Mate got bloated too for no good reason, back to XFCE, but they also can't keep their hands off of it. So here I am in i3, which is not really what I'd prefer, but at least they don't seem to have the same itch to constantly change stuff just to change it. Here's how software _SHOULD_ work: Develop it until it's _DONE_ and _STOP_. Now, you ONLY submit code that makes it run faster and use less memory. Otherwise, just stop, move on and make something else.

127361 3y ago
The "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" model, or "CADT" for short. https://archive.is/t5m32 https://archive.is/t5m32
foul 3y ago
> >Gnome after version 1, definitely after version 2 is a symptom of the >"software is never done" fallacy. After building a solid, performant and >working desktop environment, instead of leaving it alone and start making >other applications, they decided to just keep doing stuff.. and how do you >continue improving something that's already finished ? You don't, because it's >f\*cking done! It was bad even then, because it imitated some elements of MS windows, some elements of OS/2, some elements of mac os, it had messy APIs, but we didn't care because most of us have used Windows as first GUI DE and it was performant and mostly cohesive, yeah, so all in all was OK. >So what's else to do than just randomly screw with things. This is also seen in Firefox, Thunderbird, and the Windows operating systems. And with GNOME we witness the same fate of all three, being a commercial software passing for a software you can use for free. It will infuriate some people forever.
mikecoles 3y ago
Have you tried out Enlightenment? I haven't noticed much changing in a negative way. https://www.enlightenment.org/ https://www.enlightenment.org/
- dusted 3y ago
  That was actually one of my very first encounters with Linux, it was a debian based distro called "storm linux" that had it as one of the default options. I've gotten back to it over the years, but it seems.. odd somehow, slightly on the janky side and a bit slow too.

by dusted 3y ago

127361 3y ago

The "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" model, or "CADT" for short. https://archive.is/t5m32 https://archive.is/t5m32

foul 3y ago

> >Gnome after version 1, definitely after version 2 is a symptom of the >"software is never done" fallacy. After building a solid, performant and >working desktop environment, instead of leaving it alone and start making >other applications, they decided to just keep doing stuff.. and how do you >continue improving something that's already finished ? You don't, because it's >f\*cking done! It was bad even then, because it imitated some elements of MS windows, some elements of OS/2, some elements of mac os, it had messy APIs, but we didn't care because most of us have used Windows as first GUI DE and it was performant and mostly cohesive, yeah, so all in all was OK. >So what's else to do than just randomly screw with things. This is also seen in Firefox, Thunderbird, and the Windows operating systems. And with GNOME we witness the same fate of all three, being a commercial software passing for a software you can use for free. It will infuriate some people forever.

mikecoles 3y ago

Have you tried out Enlightenment? I haven't noticed much changing in a negative way. https://www.enlightenment.org/ https://www.enlightenment.org/

dusted 3y ago
That was actually one of my very first encounters with Linux, it was a debian based distro called "storm linux" that had it as one of the default options. I've gotten back to it over the years, but it seems.. odd somehow, slightly on the janky side and a bit slow too.