Re: Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

2025-02-05 Thread Coburn Ingram
I don't think it's as dismal as all that. I don't think it's an "I don't care" attitude on the part of developers. On the contrary, Linux is built on an attitude of volunteer cooperation. People are developing these apps out of goodwill. If they don't have time to respond to every instance of feedb

Re: I don't understand one thing about the linux world - One one hand they say that they don't get (enough) funds but on the other hand they also don't want to do the required stuff to get the funds.

2025-02-05 Thread Amit
On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 12:43, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM Amit wrote: > > > > I don't understand one thing about the linux world - One one hand they > > say that they don't get (enough) funds but on the other hand they also > > don't want to do the required stuff to ge

Re: Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

2025-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2025-02-05 at 18:50 +0530, Amit wrote: > I said that GNOME 2 user interface was more user friendly > than GNOME 3 user interface I agree! I'm using openbox, no desktop environment at all. You can easily write a script that users of certain distros can use to get a desktop similar to GNOME

Re: I don't understand one thing about the linux world - One one hand they say that they don't get (enough) funds but on the other hand they also don't want to do the required stuff to get the funds.

2025-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 12:38 +0530, Amit wrote: > accept the reality. https://ubuntu.com/community/governance https://ubuntu.com/community/contribute There are also a lot of other distributions with different policies. https://n6cloud.com/blog/5-linux-distributions/#Best_Linux_distro_for_Windows_

Re: I don't understand one thing about the linux world - One one hand they say that they don't get (enough) funds but on the other hand they also don't want to do the required stuff to get the funds.

2025-02-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM Amit wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 12:43, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM Amit wrote: > > > > > > I don't understand one thing about the linux world - One one hand they > > > say that they don't get (enough) funds but on the other ha

Re: I don't understand one thing about the linux world - One one hand they say that they don't get (enough) funds but on the other hand they also don't want to do the required stuff to get the funds.

2025-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 08:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > https://ubuntu.com/community/governance Oops! This is link I wanted to post: https://ubuntu.com/community/governance/teams -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: http

Re: I don't understand one thing about the linux world - One one hand they say that they don't get (enough) funds but on the other hand they also don't want to do the required stuff to get the funds.

2025-02-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM Amit wrote: > > I don't understand one thing about the linux world - One one hand they > say that they don't get (enough) funds but on the other hand they also > don't want to do the required stuff to get the funds. > > Kind of strange. There seems to be a lot of th

I don't understand one thing about the linux world - One one hand they say that they don't get (enough) funds but on the other hand they also don't want to do the required stuff to get the funds. Kind

2025-02-05 Thread Amit
I don't understand one thing about the linux world - One one hand they say that they don't get (enough) funds but on the other hand they also don't want to do the required stuff to get the funds. Kind of strange. Funds will come from companies/governments. So, the required stuff is to reach out t

Re: Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

2025-02-05 Thread Amit
I have now figured out what the main problem in the linux world is - The message from the linux world is that if you don't like something then please don't suggest anything to us, just go ahead and do it yourself, we are not going to do it. We will do what we want to do, irrespective of whether peo