Re: [PLUG] One app, one directory, no install/uninstall...

[Rich Kulawiec via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:36:11PM -0400, brent timothy saner via plug wrote:
> I'm of the strong opinion that one oughtn't try to make Linux like
> Windows. They're different, they have different design goals, and there
> are certain expectations within those differences in designs. Not even
> assumptions - expectations.
> 
> Breaking the design so it resembles another design is like designing a
> car interior to look like the cockpit of a helicopter. It serves no
> purpose except novelty, and teaches wrong expectations.

+1

One of the mistakes that Linux has made repeatedly is trying to compete
with Windows by being more like Windows.  Every year will be The Year
Of The Linux Desktop, except when it isn't, because nobody gets fired
for installing Windows.  (Or for that matter, for installing IBM.  Still.
All these decades later.)

I like your analogy and will offer my own: taking an elegant, well-crafted,
high-performance OS like Unix & Co. and trying to make it more like Windows
is like being handed an Indy race car and trying to turn it into a Ford Pinto.

Yet a mountain of effort has been lavished on this, and most of it has
made Linux worse: bloated, awkward, complicated, and increasingly distant
from the software tools philosophy that has served us so well.

It's the wrong approach.  It will end badly.

---rsk
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