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Linux is also removing tools people use. Just the other day I found out hcitool and rfcomm were removed from bluez, yet another thing I now have to handwrite my
by noobermin 3y ago
Linux is also removing tools people use. Just the other day I found out hcitool and rfcomm were removed from bluez, yet another thing I now have to handwrite myself even when I just want to tinker.
Sure, you can still do things like I can write to a socket using python over using rfcomm, but isn't it the same as this article? It's gets in the way of gnome and friends wanting to "cater the experience" plus it's legacy now (meaning "I don't want to read someone else's code, blegh!") So out it goes! Developers in foss seem to love label things "legacy" to remove, not just in windows and mac land.
- culopatin 3y agoYou say “Linux” as if it was a single company. What prevents you from either re adding it yourself or being part of the group working on that and changing what you don’t like?
- noobermin 3y agoGnome/freedesktop is essentially a single entity, and their choices affect the FOSS as a whole. If you're going to say well there are individual contributors, well there are individual employees and teams at microsoft too. I also addressed your point, I can always make my own script to play with bluetooth just like OP can run control panel with some hexstring incantation. Can is can I suppose.