Yes it does! Do you thin users of window managers don't use desktop applications?
1. I dont pretty much understand why do we have so many alternates to nautilus. Maximum 3 developed for standard DEs should have been enough.
Says a lot. You sound like an Apple or Microsoft user that has never experienced anything other than the finder or explorer
2. Why there are more than a dozen desktop environments, each trying to give icons and interface, for the very same purpose. Again Cinnamon/Xfce, KDE and Gnome were more than enough.
Same again. Get out more. But from my experience all those mentioned above apart from Xfce are either, crap, bloated and slow or all of those.
3. I like Kolourpaint more than others, personally. But still there may be some lags in it, but having gpaint, and all others for same single task.
If Kolorpaint lags on your system you have an issue somewhere.
4. So many panel applications/docks...
That all offer different options or ways of configuring.
5. Cd/Dvd Burning: k3b is my choice, but there are so many others, for each desktop!
TkDVD is mine and I'm always right
6. Audio/Music players, more than many, competing each other.
Competing? Or just made as their programmers think best.
7. Ending the basic default list here. (others: terminals, archiving tools, office, web browsers, task manager, calender, image viewers, video players)
Good because this whole idea is a load of tosh.
Why not just have 3/4 main projects, just like Distros: Debian, Fedora, LFS, and rest if the developers are interested to branch them from the original projects, as derived Distros, but still linked to the main project, and if there is positive development in the downstream, then all the upstream can also benefit from it. Though I do assume, it doesnt exist, yet.
Why not have Gentoo, Gobo and Dragora
Still some good alternates (2 or 3 only) ... seem missing, in Linux world, to:
1. xsane
2. Hplip
3. etc
I suggest you write them then or pay someone else to.
And again nothing solid exists against, wrt same inter collaboration between developers:
1. AutoCAD
2. Some Adobe Products
3. etc
As above write it or I suggest you use windows if you don't want to. Why would anyone with half a brain cell WANT to contaminate their free operating system with SLAVEWARE
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makh wrote:jmgibson1981 wrote:My take on this issue is...
Hi
Good point, ... made me think something "more missing":
Rubbish point actually that has nothing to do with free software redistribution
1. Too much resources wastage on more than perhaps thousands of repositories and servers for same one "text editor" say. Why waste so many resources.?
Wow thousands of repositories in a world of millions if no billions of software users. I take it you do realise that most of these same "text editors" are binary packages in different forms. dmg, exe, tlz, deb, rpm etc,,, and that some also need to host the source files as part of the licence agreement.
2. It seems better, like in android (perhaps this is coming via flatpak), to launch a good product which gets installed in all 4 versions of debian: Stable, Old Stable, Testing, Sid. It will save a lot on repositories and servers. The googleplay doesnt differentiate, not even the other downloaded softwares, force bind to a single kernel or android version.
But this may apply to rolling distros only, not to stable.
Better like in Android!
flatpak another of the freedesktop.org (we are not a standards body just act like one) lock downs.
3. I didnt wanted to add here: but Ubuntu Desktop blew it up, and forced me to Debian, I remember the transition: Ubuntu 8.04 to Debian Squeeze. That project was suppose to be Desktop leader in Linux world, ... but I wont add more.
No one forced you to Debian. It's not like you didn't have CHOICE.
4. The over head resources, should now be instead put on to work on better drivers and closed sourced applications, which dont have good alternates. And to make the existing ones get par the current.
Does not compute.
5. The "distro war on desktops" should be less, now, rather focus on 4 or 5 main distros. Else, perhaps Android or other newcomer may "out-run" both MacOS and Windows.
A big Bollox to that. In short I've not read such a load of tosh in this forum for a long while (ignoring you know who who always writes tosh) .