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| From | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? |
| Date | Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:02:52 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2014-08-16, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote: > For what it's worth, Linux /does/ give me what I want, and so does FreeBSD. But I make some rather judicious choices, too. I never much liked Gnome, but I dislike their philosophy of "fewer choices, because the user is a mental imbicile" even more vehemently, and as such I don't use their desktop, and very little of their software (Gimp, Transmission come to mind; that might truly be it). There's a piece on HackerNews today [1] that roils me: "Choose Firefox now, or later you won't get a choice." Yeah, I get it that Chrome is Google and Google is avaricious. But I want to scream at the Firefox developers, "Get it together son! I don't use Chrome because I love Google. I use it because your browser is a piece of donkey shit! Give me a browser worth using and I'll be back!" Actually, I use Opera, but whatever. And in the comments [2] someone rightly points out now that Opera uses Google's Blink rendering engine, I'm in trouble too ... [1] http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html?showComment=1408137721125 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8185461
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Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-16 04:14 +0000
Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-08-16 09:14 +0100
Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-08-16 13:32 +0100
Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-16 15:59 +0300
Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-16 20:02 +0000
Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-16 21:48 +0000
Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-16 22:13 +0000
Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-08-16 22:43 +0000
Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-16 23:52 +0000
Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-08-17 14:38 +0100
Re: Will Linux ever be able to give consumers what they want? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-08-17 15:04 +0100
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