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Look what they've done to my oatmeal...

Look what they've done to my oatmeal...

Posted Apr 1, 2010 9:09 UTC (Thu) by yeti-dn (guest, #46560)
In reply to: Look what they've done to my oatmeal... by jonas.bonn
Parent article: Ubuntu and window controls

There is some insight in the first three paragraphs, however this

The flipside is that it's likely the exact same group who would be bemoaning the lack of innovation, the stagnancy of the distribution, if these more visible changes were not being made... and then I'd be writing this comment about the large number of "liberal bikeshedders" in the community!

is utter and total rubbish.

There are many conservatives like me who think distributions tend to play too much with fancy stuff instead of fixing problems and that they diverge too much from upstream. I have never complained about lack of innovation. Nothing is more annoying than when things that used to work stop working in the name of some bloody useless innovation. And there's nothing "bikeshed painting" on that.


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