Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th May 2008 17:54 UTC
Ivan Krstic' critique of the One Laptop Per Child Project has made its ripples around the pond of the intertubes. Apart from the obvious part where it criticises a major project from an insider's point of view, it also had a few other remarks that caught people's attention - most notably the admission that despite his ability to do Linux kernel hacking, his main development laptop is a Macintosh running Mac OS X.
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RE[2]: No thanks, Linux is fine
by l3v1 on Tue 27th May 2008 08:17
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Member since:2005-07-06
May be it's because of age as said in this news. I'm slowly feeling less fun to play with those stuff and feeling the annoyance whenever problems hits me (even though I may know which files to edit already). I simply want everything to work as I want, without all those configruations.
Funny thing. I'm using Linux - not exclusively, but constantly - myself [10+ years since my first contact] and I've always found that everything gets simpler to do for me as the years go by, and that includes various configurations. I just happened to accept that Linux comes with having to do some things by hand, which wasn't really a hurdle for these years.
And I also have to say, all those "annoyances" people like to repeat and come up with every so often - configration issues and the like - are really not so frequent, unless one's sole businness is to setup new distros every day.
Yet, it's like a catch-22, since it's mostly newbies who keep installing things and distros again and again when they run into some problem - which is a train of thought coming from their Windows backgrounds for sure - and at the end they say Linux sucks, but it wouldn't suck if they wouldn't keep installing distros hoping they'll run into a magical everything-works one. Also, they'd need to learn that Linux is Linux is Linux, i.e. there's really not such a huge difference between distros that they need to install every new release they run into.
Edited 2008-05-27 08:18 UTC
RE[2]: No thanks, Linux is fine
by marafaka on Tue 27th May 2008 12:35
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Member since:2006-01-03
Things will only work out of the box if you have no preferences. Having no preferences means your life is limited and you gave up your desires for convention. Billy knows everything you want? Where is your uniqueness?
You sure are unique, you just don't use computers for anything important so usual consumer box with a usual interface is fine with you. Right?
RE[3]: No thanks, Linux is fine
by evangs on Tue 27th May 2008 13:02
in reply to "RE[2]: No thanks, Linux is fine"
Member since:2005-07-07
Things will only work out of the box if you have no preferences. Having no preferences means your life is limited and you gave up your desires for convention. Billy knows everything you want? Where is your uniqueness? You sure are unique, you just don't use computers for anything important so usual consumer box with a usual interface is fine with you. Right?
I work on a software project whose code base spans some 10 years. The number of source files is in the thousands and the number of lines of code is in the millions. I collaborate with some 200 other developers spread across the globe.
I the default windows theme, and I've only changed the desktop background to something more to my tastes (e.g. landscape scenery photographed using HDR).
What exactly is wrong with "default" interfaces that make them unusable for developers on large projects? Most developers do not care about tweaking their desktops beyond the usual defaults. Neither are they under any delusions about how "unique" and "important" the work they undertake is.
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2008-03-25
Well, I guess as a "somewhat more hardcore developer", it is fine for you. I'm a developer myself, and I've also use Linux for several years (with dual boot to Windows). I'm satisfy with Linux in general. But once a while, you just meet problems that you need to find information everywhere and have to edit configuration files to fix probelms here and there. Or may be you can't find some softwares that are as good as on Windows once a while.
May be it's because of age as said in this news. I'm slowly feeling less fun to play with those stuff and feeling the annoyance whenever problems hits me (even though I may know which files to edit already). I simply want everything to work as I want, without all those configruations.
I now uses Windows and still uses all those open source softwares, but I don't have all those problems I had on Linux that annoys me. Of course, that depends on personal character. But then, I guess, it's one view.