Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 15, 2013 10:49 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Remote desktop vs. remote display by dlang
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

If you start cutting features because "99% of the users don't need that feature", you will very quickly get to a system that has no users.

Sure. No doubt about it. But if you'll not implement features which are needed by 99% of users because they break this oh-so-important 1% of then you'll get there much, much, MUCH faster. And this is, in fact, what happened with Linux.

Do you know that bestselling laptop on Amazon right now, today is Linux-based laptop? Go and check, if you want. What? What do you mean "it's not Linux"? It sure is. It just culled some features not useful by 99% of users (such as the ability to run compiler locally) and added some features useful for 99% of users (such as the ability to watch netflix), that's all.