On 10 June 2010 11:40, Dylan McCall <dylanmcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To be serious, I don't like this kind of forcing one's own view of > > usability onto the users. GNU/Linux is all about free customization. > > Give the user your preferred applications, but let him choose what > > he/she wants to use. > > GNU/Linux is absolutely not “about” anything, especially not free > customization at runtime. If we are going to do this, it's all about > freely modifying source code and building those customized solutions. > > With that said, Linux is (or should be) less about confusing runtime > options than the proprietary competition. With them, those are > necessities because they want to keep users happy but don't want to > give them source code. Over here, we can afford to make decisive > design choices to keep the platform sane and simple. If people > disagree with those choices, they can make their own modifications to > the software, or use someone else's modified version. > > Look at the mobile phone space. We have stuff like WebOS and Maemo, > which are both built on top of common bits we use here on the desktop. > (Actually, a surprising and pleasing number of them). Neither of those > operating systems has a button to configure the panels or revert to > volume-control-like-2009. But you have a choice in using them. > Importantly, the developers of those operating systems were able to > leverage the platform and its open source nature to build those > amazing operating systems exactly the way they were meant to be, > without any loose ends or wiggly bits. > Naturally, WebOS and Android have some of the best SDKs out there. > > Why shouldn't that be allowed on the desktop? >
End-user here. I find these sentiments very disturbing. If I wanted something locked down I'd buy a stevePad or steveBook or steveMac. Anzan >
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