On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
[snip]
Well, based on my short experiments with Unity and my failed attempts with
Gnome 3, I don't like both. Both are similar, both are based on the same
GUI-ideas. If I only had a choice between these 2, I'd choose Unity.
Ralf
I think it's a function of complexity. I can remember when there weren't all these
manager and configuration tools and such, and installing linux on a new machine meant
editing files, downloading drivers, etc. When a new version/distro came out, it was a
huge hassle, but most of the hassle didn't come from the distro. It came from
downloading and configuration by hand -- but it was expected, so it somehow didn't
"count."
Now we have all these shiny distros with bells, whistles, flashing lights, and
automatic configuration tools that do all this stuff for us in an entertaining
manner. We have reorganized things to make it easy for the configuration tools
in a way that makes manual configuration harder and harder.
That's OK. It's a good thing that linux is easier to install and use for
people who do''t want to be system administrators. But the cost is that every
one of these features introduces a probability that it will not work with
something else, and the likelihood that a new version or distro will have
problems necessarily approaches 1.
And it will approach 1 for *any* such distro. Changing distros doesn't help
this problem, unless you go to one of the minimal distros that are still
oriented towards simplified manual configuration (if there is such a one
nowadays). My personal philosophy is that I try to stick with one distro and
learn how to manually modify things to bypass the configuration tools as much
as possible -- though some such tools, such as NetworkManager seem to do their
best to fight against those efforts.
billo
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