Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "" video.

  1. 20:56 The cost is actually very low. Remember that most of these efforts are run by very small teams. Don’t be misled by the fact that, when proprietary companies try to do something similar, it ends up costing them lots. That’s a key difference between proprietary and Free software, which extends to all levels of the platform stack.
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  2. Only somebody who grew up on a proprietary platform would complain about “too much choice” ...
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  3. Because of all the well-known problems with X11.
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  4.  @CyberGizmo  Yes, there are plenty of complaints from Microsoft and Apple users every time their platform owners make UI changes and move things around from familiar places. GUI tweaker addons, including ones to restore older-style “classic” behaviours, are fairly popular on those platforms, the only thing limiting them is, since the platforms are not designed for such customization, such addons tend to make them unstable. There are no such limitations in the Linux world. That’s why we have so much more choice.
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  5. There are people who disagree with you. You are free not to use their work.
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  6. People work on what they want to work on. If something isn’t to your liking, contribute a patch to fix it. Too many users have been indoctrinated with a mentality more appropriate to proprietary systems, where you cannot actually fix anything, you can only passively complain and hope that somebody is listening (fat hopes).
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  7. I have about 20 terminal sessions open under KDE. The nice thing about using terminals and text editors under a GUI is being able to copy/paste between them. GUIs on their own do not support copy/pasting sequences of actions.
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  8. Was the GUI a modular, separately replaceable layer like on Linux?
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  9.  @sylviam6535  Problem for whom, exactly? Do you find “fragmentation” a problem with different models of cars?
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  10.  @sylviam6535  It’s up to you to choose to use the good ones. Or help to make the not-so-good ones better. Stop thinking like a passive user of proprietary products.
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