Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Posted Sep 8, 2014 17:12 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by paulj
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
> While I agree this path has led to sound and wireless working well in Linux today, I would disagree it was the only possible path.
...perhaps you are correct, but those other paths would have taken considerably longer, leading to a different sort of user burning.
> What's the point of utopia, if you've burned off all your users getting there? Linux laptops were once well-represented at über-techy / dev conferences, now it's OS X almost everywhere.
These days, Linux just isn't a cool counterculture status symbol any more. It's part of the boring infrastructure that's someone else's problem.
Anyway. The technical ones basically boil down to the benefits of Apple controlling the entire hardware/software/cloud stack -- Stuff JustWorks(tm). As long as you color within the lines, anyway.