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Comment by kstrauser | Hacker News Reader

So after Miguel did everything possible to fragment and screw up Linux desktops, he's now complaining about fragmented and screwed up Linux desktops.

Color me surprised.

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Well, and after years of his project slavishly imitating Windows, its latest iteration is slavishly imitating OS X. So, good work all around.

Edit: vvvv I stand corrected.

Double Edit: What exactly do you mean, anyway? Things like http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2002020601120OPGNMS, dated 2010, seem to indicate he's still active within GNOME.

He has not been actively involved in what you call "his project" for more than a decade.

That seem to be dated to 2002.

What is wrong with my brain I don't even know

As if the shell was the problem! It wasn't and isn't. The fragmentation that matters happens at a lower level, e.g. library versioning, the centralized software repositories, etc. Which is great on the server. But terrible on the desktop.

I don't know what that means. I'm typing this on a Mint desktop and almost every app I could ever want is available through Software Manager or apt-get. I've also released a cross-platform utility that's packaged for Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, FreeBSD, and Homebrew without any modifications to the utility itself.

Linux is the one place I've never been concerned with library versioning, poor centralized software repos, etc. Am I missing something?

It is almost impossible to install software by independent software vendors. This is not an issue for you (and me) but for almost everyone else.

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