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March 3, 2008 by Bruce Byfield
Posted in Bruce Byfield, linux, Personal, Uncategorized | Tagged Bruce Byfield, Free Software, freesoftware, gnu/linux, linux, opensource, Personal, Uncategorized | 5 Comments
on March 4, 2008 at 11:17 pm | Reply jpipkin
Amen! That philosophy is too similar to the GNOME philosophy of removing features to not confuse the poor, stupid user. It’s crippling, debilitating, and seriously annoying.
on March 5, 2008 at 4:57 am | Reply proudeng
on March 5, 2008 at 7:32 am | Reply Rambo Tribble
No, no, ice cream would be more popular if it only came in one flavor.
on March 5, 2008 at 10:31 am | Reply Olaf van der Spek
> But, under GNU/Linux, I had an immediate choice of workarounds
But apparently (still) no solution.
on March 5, 2008 at 5:48 pm | Reply Jim March
Yup. And it’s not just desktops, it’s *every* software module in the pile ‘o stuff we call “Linux”.
I had problems with Network Manager in Ubuntu dealing with WiFi. Swapped it out for WicD which turns out to be a lot better in many ways.
About the only parts that can’t be swapped easily are the file system interface and Xorg’s core. For even video cards there’s usually multiple driver options…
Messiness is better | Off the Wall
« Beginning writers and style
The terror of the treadmill »
March 3, 2008 by Bruce Byfield
Posted in Bruce Byfield, linux, Personal, Uncategorized | Tagged Bruce Byfield, Free Software, freesoftware, gnu/linux, linux, opensource, Personal, Uncategorized | 5 Comments
on March 4, 2008 at 11:17 pm | Reply jpipkin
Amen! That philosophy is too similar to the GNOME philosophy of removing features to not confuse the poor, stupid user. It’s crippling, debilitating, and seriously annoying.
on March 5, 2008 at 4:57 am | Reply proudeng
on March 5, 2008 at 7:32 am | Reply Rambo Tribble
No, no, ice cream would be
 more popular if it only came in one flavor.
on March 5, 2008 at 10:31 am | Reply Olaf van der Spek
> But, under GNU/Linux, I had an immediate choice of workarounds
But apparently (still) no solution.
on March 5, 2008 at 5:48 pm | Reply Jim March
Yup. And it’s not just desktops, it’s *every* software module in the pile ‘o stuff we call “Linux”.
I had problems with Network Manager in Ubuntu dealing with WiFi. Swapped it out for WicD which turns out to be a lot better in many ways.
About the only parts that can’t be swapped easily are the file system interface and Xorg’s core. For even video cards there’s usually multiple driver options…