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Vendors + distributions are all committing suicide by pandering to the app store model, tablet interfaces and walled gardens. Noone is killing anyone. Linux pi

Vendors + distributions are all committing suicide by pandering to the app store model, tablet interfaces and walled gardens. Noone is killing anyone. Linux pissed the power users off (the entire market segment no less) during the gnome2 to gnome3/unity transition. Apple are pissing power users off with their walled garden growing higher and some shoddy unreliable features. Microsoft are pissing off power users with the same mind bending crapfest changes i.e. Metro. It's all gone to shit actually. I really wish I did something else for a living. I'm sitting here on a T61 with Debian on it, awesome window manager and xterms. It's the last bastion of common sense for the power user.

norswap 14y ago
> Linux pissed the power users off (the entire market segment no less) during the gnome2 to gnome3/unity transition. I think you meant "Ubuntu" instead of "Linux" here.
- xqyz 14y ago
  no? Most distributions transitioned to either gnome 3 or unity from gnome 2, not just ubuntu. And yes, Gnome 3 was part of the reason why I considered and in the end switched to OS X for my main machine (from Gentoo).
- eckyptang 14y ago
  Nope. Ubuntu, Redhat (which is pulling gnome3 into RHEL7), Fedora, Mint. Nothing else is of significance. At least Debian have the balls to pick something different.
cmsj 14y ago
Welcome to the world where we are a vanishingly tiny minority. It's our fault, we told everyone that computers are amazing and they should buy one. They did and now we are outnumbered and not worth focussing much effort on.
- eckyptang 14y ago
  Well not exactly - I think it's down to the fact that a couple of large corporations worked out it was an easy way to screw the shit out of people without actually having to produce anything tangible. Lets start making it harder again and more productive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8r3tHUK6v4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8r3tHUK6v4

norswap 14y ago

> Linux pissed the power users off (the entire market segment no less) during the gnome2 to gnome3/unity transition. I think you meant "Ubuntu" instead of "Linux" here.

xqyz 14y ago
no? Most distributions transitioned to either gnome 3 or unity from gnome 2, not just ubuntu. And yes, Gnome 3 was part of the reason why I considered and in the end switched to OS X for my main machine (from Gentoo).
eckyptang 14y ago
Nope. Ubuntu, Redhat (which is pulling gnome3 into RHEL7), Fedora, Mint. Nothing else is of significance. At least Debian have the balls to pick something different.

cmsj 14y ago

Welcome to the world where we are a vanishingly tiny minority. It's our fault, we told everyone that computers are amazing and they should buy one. They did and now we are outnumbered and not worth focussing much effort on.

eckyptang 14y ago
Well not exactly - I think it's down to the fact that a couple of large corporations worked out it was an easy way to screw the shit out of people without actually having to produce anything tangible. Lets start making it harder again and more productive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8r3tHUK6v4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8r3tHUK6v4