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Originally posted by Volta View Post
I had and their usability is far away from my preferences. I even prefer Windows over it, but Windows is terrible mess overall. I always preferred KDE over everything, but I'm currently Gnome user, because it's more polished.
I am forced to use Vim on every Windows and Linux machine, because it is awful to program while going around with the mouse, pressing keys that are far from the home row ( End, Insert, Delete, the cursor keys ). I can use a normal editor on Macs, because the trackpad and the well designed ( from an ergonomic point of view ) keyboard makes it a breeze to move around.
Or you can delete a file just by moving the cursor with your thumbs on the trackpad, then hitting Fn+backspace.
These are minor things but that adds up. This is what I mean by usability. The same usability that I can have on PCs too, by using Vim and vim-like programs and plugins ( Vimium for Chromium and Tridactyl for Firefox, for example ). But I cannot have it by default, by using the built-in interaction mechanisms in Windows/Linux/BSDs.
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Red Hat contributes most of the code and most of the commits, in a word, most of the work.
It's just consequential that they have most of the control.
Don't you think that it would be risky to pour lots and lots of resources, like you said, in a project you don't control?
You'd have to be quite naive to believe they don't.Last edited by JackLilhammers; 14 January 2021, 08:13 AM.
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Originally posted by Volta View Post
I had and their usability is far away from my preferences. I even prefer Windows over it, but Windows is terrible mess overall. I always preferred KDE over everything, but I'm currently Gnome user, because it's more polished.
For better or worse, they're the one company obsessed with design.
By the way macbooks are the only laptops where you feel you don't need a mouse.
Neither Windows nor Linux even come close yet.
Windows is messy, but that's the price for backwards compatibility, something that in the Linux world seems almost like an nuisance.
When your os runs on the majority of the desktops in the world you can't just replace the old and familiar UI with a new one and expect the people to be fine with it.
They tried with Windows 8 and we all saw what happened.
Gnome did that too and that gave us at least Cinnamon and Budgie. (and Pantheon?)
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JackLilhammers Sorry but you and Mez’ need to stop projecting your hate on Red Hat.
So you got trapped by the Qt CLA. Mez’ got trapped by Canonical CLA. Deal with your stuff and keep Red Hat out of it.
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Originally posted by White Wolf View PostWhat a great achievement. Windows is superior here, they did it more than 20 years ago...
Hope linux in 10 years will be polished as Windows 10 now for end user then maybe it will be used more for desktops.
Then decided to read whole thread first.
Seems I was wrong, you got more than half-a-dozen.
Impressive catch, good for you.
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Originally posted by 144Hz View PostJackLilhammers Sorry but you and Mez’ need to stop projecting your hate on Red Hat.
So you got trapped by the Qt CLA. Mez’ got trapped by Canonical CLA. Deal with your stuff and keep Red Hat out of it.
Besides, don't you think that things can be a little more nuanced than love or hate?
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JackLilhammers I didn’t say you hate Red Hat. I said you projected hate. That’s very different.
So Red Hat has an excellent track record of not doing evil. They could easily CLA all their work and force the remaining contributors into something similar as the Qt or Canonical CLA scams. Red Hat chose not to do that.
Instead they allowed Independents, Canonical, Endlessm and others to gain maintenance rights on modules the depend on.
That includes glib, control center, terminal and other modules.
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