Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RS Wood 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) Organization: solani.org Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: solani.org 1408219372 15203 eJwNyscBgAAIBLCV6IfjUGT/ETTvuAbHwMLD/PwQR2fNoCm8YG2ZPZqVZMGVZ7nKn/rRxPYHH5gRKw== (16 Aug 2014 20:02:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:02:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBgEAIAsCVMgVqnE90/xG6QzLYKoKFxUpXk9HMt+fhnU580XW81lF4jFneBUH2/Bj0EXA= Cancel-Lock: sha1:V+sRI9ePsd458GmGeJY1Zj/MfOQ= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBgDAIA7CXGBTQcxi2/59gklGntlFZSKX4uAUsnYSRG5yNHsM3ibitmndle00u6PwgyRGp Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:4429 On 2014-08-16, Rich 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