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The libre and open software community is way too considerate with existing users. Combine that with anarchistic development and you get the inconsistent and com
by madez 12y ago
The libre and open software community is way too considerate with existing users. Combine that with anarchistic development and you get the inconsistent and complex mess we ended up with.
Debian is _horrible_. And it will never be good without radical changes, possibly including changing options and syntax of commands, breaking API's and ABI's and breaking every running instance of it.
Just look at basic commands. It's 'cp ifile ofile' but 'dd if=ifile of=ofile'. This one-of-many wart has to go, exiled together with all its siblings.
Common shell languages like sh and it's children are nightmarish abominations, unintuitive and unsafe - they deserve to die in flames.
We need change. A change for the better; for intuitiveness, for elegance, conformity, consistency, for learnability. Until then, Windows and Apples OS will stand a chance.
Intelligent design is what we need, not only evolution.