It's hard to coordinate and improve software effectively among people with different ideas of what something should look like.
This is why Windows and Mac will always remain dominant desktop operating systems, I think. It only takes a few issues like this for a user to give up and go back to the big two players.
I'm not sure what the proper term is but having thousands of MS developers working and being led by managers, defined organizational processes and sense of direction vs hundreds of thousands open source developers led by their own ideas, what good and should look like, and different motiviation, a lack of coordination and a organisational process as big as a paragraph inside an obscure README.md
Except for the part where tons of people are up in arms because MS removes or changes their UI. Fisher price, new control panel (XP), vista, UAC, start menu search, ads, mandatory logins, new control panel (8/10/11), new inflexible taskbar and so on
Except for the part where all of those people are Linux users who complain about Windows as a hobby, and have no effect on the relative market shares of Linux/Windows because they would never switch back to Windows under any circumstances.
"Everyone complaining about Windows changes are Windows-hating Linuxers" is only the second most insane take here after the dude upthread claiming everyone who complains about no thumbnails in Gnome's file picker is a Nazi.
You're right, I should clarify. I don't think that everyone complaining about Windows changes are Windows-hating Linuxers. Rather, I think that the majority of people complaining about Windows changes are Windows-hating Linuxers. I'd love to be proven wrong, however, because believing this is somewhat soul-crushing.
This is probably why Linux has been such a large success. For all the submissions, suggestions, filtering by those lower down the chain...at the end of the day it's Linus that says "Yes" or "No". (And/or chews people out for bad code.)
It's hard to coordinate and improve software effectively among people with different ideas of what something should look like.
This is why Windows and Mac will always remain dominant desktop operating systems, I think. It only takes a few issues like this for a user to give up and go back to the big two players.
I'm not sure what the proper term is but having thousands of MS developers working and being led by managers, defined organizational processes and sense of direction vs hundreds of thousands open source developers led by their own ideas, what good and should look like, and different motiviation, a lack of coordination and a organisational process as big as a paragraph inside an obscure README.md
Too many cooks in the kitchen sour the soup.