We could still have a 'Year of the Linux desktop'
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NextCloud founder Frank Karlitschek challenges Linux developers to start working together to make life easier for would-be Linux application developers. If it does, he thinks Linux can be a significant desktop player.
And maybe after that, The Beatles could get together again
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"Why are the two APIs for basic file management? Why are you asking ISVs to do double the work?"
Seriously, is he first to ask this? I was thinking the same thing since I am playing with linux server for almost a year. Ubuntu installation have like 4 different desktops environments. There are probably like a dozen VNC servers. None of them works out of the box. Even if many, many things works out-of-the-box many more itches the hell out of you i.e. dark them in debian causes on some websites to render white letters in white input fields :omg: Some applications uses apt, some snap, some docker, some appimages, some others etc. What is great about FOSS world is IMO its biggest weakness.
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
The Beatles could get together again
Not in this life. :sigh:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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You could, but you wont because too many of us developers think we have a better way (and sometimes that's true, we do) and want everyone else to know it and follow it. Hence the fragmentation of Linux, Android and every other flavor of *nix. This will continue until all come to the unity of faith that is Windows. :D
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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There are many reasons (problems in the general Linux ecosystem) that this will probably never happen. Until and unless Microsoft kills Windows off and comes out with their own Linux distro, we're all up Kernel Creek without a paddle.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
Yes, and they would have a new hit... "Linux in the sky with diamonds"... pretty catchy, huh?
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
