Some unlikely 2021 predictions

Posted Jan 11, 2021 18:35 UTC (Mon) by pebolle (guest, #35204)
In reply to: Some unlikely 2021 predictions by marcH
Parent article: Some unlikely 2021 predictions

> This would be true if divas^H developers liked to "focus" on fixing bugs. But they prefer refactoring and (re)writing on a regular basis. So some redundancy and alternatives are useful.

So the developers of the default desktop prefer refactoring and rewriting, on a regular basis actually, and the developers of the alternatives don't? Apperently the incentives for the developers of alternative desktop are totally different.

(Because rhetorical questions suck: I think the developers of the default desktop and the alternatives are basically subject to the same incentives. Except some of the developers of the default are actually _paid_ to fix bugs. And I expect the default to have less bugs than the alternatives anyhow, as it is being used much more often.)

Some unlikely 2021 predictions

Posted Jan 26, 2021 16:51 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> So the developers of the default desktop prefer refactoring and rewriting, on a regular basis actually, and the developers of the alternatives don't?

This is not about "default" vs "alternatives", it's only about having more choice and more competition.

> Because rhetorical questions suck

Especially the ones put in others' mouth.