Yeah, I heard about the Pop guys doing that. Not sure I’m crazy about that decision, but if their target audience is new users, I kinda get why they would do it. At least, I think they probably pinned the packages, or at least have a local fork. No way upstream would accept any change like that.
The Linux desktop, UX research, Fast bug fixes, etc will happen when a lot of private companies inject money in Linux.
The kernel itself have a lot of money to keep servers running in a good spot. Android is the same.
- Canonical is injecting money for a long time in linux Desktop
- Google is doing their job with chrome book and others
- Valve now is injecting a lot of money due to Steam Deck and other markets decisions
Is it enough to make it happen to reach at least 5% or 10% market share or do we need more?
Less desktops environments would be better, at least to be bumped with money, but now with some companies breaking with Gnome we might see even more new desktops consuming resources (man power).
Linus Torvalds once said that one of the main issue for desktops the is waste of resources, a lot of redundancies for each distributions packaging things, etc. From the ecosystem point of view it’s true, if you look to each distro probably they have less resources them needed and major part volunteers, but zooming out, Linus is right.
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I disagree . I watched video of Brodie Robertson talking about this fix .Fix isnt supposed to stop users from uninstalling. it is about letting users know what they are doing (breaking the system). Pop os decided that there should a new file created with a name break-my-system in order to uninstall necessary components . And debian decided that apt should be called with some argument in order to uninstall necessary components . I think linus has helped debian and pop os to improve themself .
@cscs I think i understand your perspective . For a very knowledgeable Linux expert like you ,these things would feel unnecessary . At this point i don’t think you would be able think from his(normie’s) perspective . As some who just started using linux i believe i can understand what linus is thinking . And some others(@leewsb ) who are way too wise to be true would be able understand his perspective too i guess
This guy pointed out some UI/UX flaws in the Manjaro Settings manager( Nvidia driver section) which I think are legit. Hope the design team can take some pointers!
Cheers!
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Another two Linux guys reacting to the Challenge video #1 and #2 combined into a single video, very nice talk.
Two of my favorite Linux youtubers joined, excellent stuff.
New settings manager (Manjaro Control Panel) is under work from some time already.
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And here is the part #3 with more direct feedback for Manjaro and Dolphin (KDE).
We don’t need two topics about the same thing.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/linus-using-manjaro-for-his-linux-challenge/88250