On Wednesday 28 Apr 2010 00:44:04 Mariusz Fik wrote:
Dnia środa, 28 kwietnia 2010 o 01:27:20 Carlos E. R. napisał(a):
On 2010-04-27 22:26, j debert wrote:
Linux-based distros have offered a variety of different apps with identical or at least similar functionality at least since the first CD distros were published in 1994. It's a tradition. Unfortunately, or fortunately for the anti-choice faction, that tradition is being dropped lately. The reason for the tradition of including multiple apps is simple: Offer users several different apps so they can easily select one that they like. Most users love to have such a selection available to them so they can pick the one they feel works best or simply "feels" best for them. They are happier to have several choices available and on hand than to have a single choice imposed upon them in the way the commercial OS market does. There have always been a few who complain about having "too many choices", and complain that there must be only one app per function per distro. As many people like to say, "free software is about choice", so by extension this is about the users' choice. I'd say to those who hate choice, "sorry, but you're going to have to just live with having too many choices. After all, those who want choices had to live without choice or even a say for a long time.
Absolutely :-)
I like choice.
But easy access to all other programs via package manager is _choice_ too... Isn't it for You? Package managers that frell up way to many times WHY do you not like the ability to choose are you a windows draconian type people will use what i say and nothing else or something along those lines
Making a choice? Even during install You need to choose: KDE, Gnome, other DE, no X... Still not enough?
How many apps is in default system for Office Productivity? 1. OpenOffice.org And your point IS ?
How many audioplayers? 1. Amarok/Banshee Simple in fact nowhere near enough choice here
Videoplayer? 1. Kaffeine/Totem As Above
And where is Your choice on this stage? I answer for You. Package Manager & software repositories.
Too many people involved in Opensuse are far far far to busy trying to do a windows on Opensuse this is what we say you will run like it or lump it this is NOT a good culture to continue . It is all very well saying the stuff is out there BUT there are a surprisingly large number of people out here in the Real world that have very IFFY slow and downright internet connections , what this has to do with the argument IS the those people NEED the choices ON the DISC not on the other end of some connection that may or may not complete the transaction without barfing the systems up for you so the long and the short of it all is WE NEED CHOICE item ,the more the better Pete -- Powered by openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4- default KDE: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1" 07:51 up 5 days 19:33, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.10, 0.07