Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 15:39:46 +0200 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <100le5o$318dd$1@dont-email.me> <100ljn1$30vat$2@dont-email.me> <6831b9a7$0$8595$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <6832fab9$0$11442$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10102st$1j2ov$1@dont-email.me> <10131ao$28rgm$1@dont-email.me> <1016dr6$1e7od$1@news1.tnib.de> <1016gih$355q7$6@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net uSb17umcOfUZqsiA33pfzQeHFJqSst+LQjQhx2fu8lItaJRYq6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rDgm5N4nrqDF7OaqqWNZKlgaQUM= sha256:IMU2tTf2mgHeiUIJwA7pkPknXb2yYmYev6B0aJ/9JCs= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:67917 On 2025-05-28 14:06, Borax Man wrote: > On 2025-05-28, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> On 28/05/2025 08:26, Marc Haber wrote: >>> c186282 wrote: >>>> CURRENTLY - I think the Linux universe has become just >>>> TOO diverse. More standardization would be a longer >>>> term advantage. >>> >>> systemd tried that and divided the worlds even more. >>> >> Oh, in the end like X windows, people will spend ten times as many man >> hours getting systemd to work, and documenting it, as that little shit >> Poettering spent in writing it. >> Because development, uniformity and documentaion is far more important >> than excellence. > > I was reading some discussion on the Fedora forum for devs, about > removing X11. Linux's big problem, is that developers just don't really > consider end users, but themselves and their vision. Aye. Sorry to agree. > > Linus seems a bit out of place. He's rule for the Linux kernel, the > only hard rule, is don't break userspace. The user matters. The user > is everything. > > Poettering joked that he broke our audio. These cowboys need to be kept > away from the OS. > > The user matters. The whole point of the OS, of all this endeavour, is > to serve the user, and allow the user to do what they want. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.