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> I don't care about Microsoft or Apple. Yet you seem to: > I've helped a lot of people try to make Linux work for them Okay, do you care about _your_ deskt

> I don't care about Microsoft or Apple. Yet you seem to: > I've helped a lot of people try to make Linux work for them Okay, do you care about _your_ desktop, or having as many people use Linux as a desktop as possible? Have you considered that these two facts may actually be at odds with each other? > We want higher quality software We're getting further and further away from your desktop. > Configuration options come at a cost, and that's exactly why modern software has less of it. Wait.. so software got less expensive to develop.. and yet we're concerned about configuration options.. so they're being _reduced_ from what they _historically_ were? > but it's hard to make software more robust This is just an exercise in goal post moving at this point.

jchw 2y ago
> Okay, do you care about _your_ desktop, or having as many people use Linux as a desktop as possible? Have you considered that these two facts may actually be at odds with each other? How does trying to help people use Linux have anything to do with Windows or macOS? I don't tell people to use Linux, I tell people not to use Linux, because it sucks. When people do it anyways, they frequently come to me for help because I have more Linux desktop experience than is humanly justifiable. > We're getting further and further away from your desktop. My desktop has software on it. > Wait.. so software got less expensive to develop.. and yet we're concerned about configuration options.. so they're being _reduced_ from what they _historically_ were? In what way did software get less expensive to develop? > This is just an exercise in goal post moving at this point. The goal posts are in your head. I'm not playing some kind of game. You are.