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Ubuntu is infected by the NIH syndrome. Mir, upstart, Unity, you name it.
by zobzu 13y ago
Ubuntu is infected by the NIH syndrome.
Mir, upstart, Unity, you name it.
- pekk 13y agoGnome 3 has its own NIH syndrome. XFCE was NIH because otherw desktops existed. LXDE was NIH because other desktops existed. Almost every new thing back to the beginning of time was NIH because there was something approximately similar before. There is truly nothing new under the sun. So what?
- lmm 13y agoSo it's better to support KDE, which seems to have a far lower drama-quotient and is much more willing to adopt GNOME technology than vice-versa.
- zobzu 13y agoActually, what I really mean by that is that Ubuntu leverage their control over users to enforce their pov on software. Nothing much new under the sun tho. Doesn't make statement invalid.
- rlpb 13y ago> upstart No. upstart existed before systemd, and was the first of its kind. Unity exists because GNOME took a different direction from Ubuntu's vision of what the desktop should look like (just look at the number of people who complain about GNOME 3 removing features). Mir developers have justified their position technically. I understand that their technical position is refuted by Wayland proponents. But if you don't understand the technical arguments yourself, I don't think you can justifiably comment, since there's clearly politics involved in the claims and rebuttals made. If anything, Ubuntu is infected with a Just Get It Done syndrome. I don't think that's a bad thing. Show me a real world distro with significant user share that ships Wayland, and does it better than Ubuntu. Without that you have no argument.
- bkor 13y agoUnity was designed at the same hackfest that GNOME shell was discussed. However, the discussion of GNOME shell was in the open, Unity was secret. Note that Wayland is available in Fedora, Mageia, opensuse, etc.
- synchronise 13y agoAnd even when it was being developed in the open, it still managed to make the vast majority of the community have qualms with the direction GS was heading in. Hell, Cinnamon is a good case and point, an open source project who had to fork the GS code base in order to add features that they felt the user would prefer.