Re: Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3
- From: 夜神 岩男 <supergiantpotato@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:56:40 +0900
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 08:09 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:56:35AM +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
Corporate and home users are already being expected (by that company in
Redmond) to upgrade to higher end hardware for their latest offerings as
well. The difference is that Fedora has fallback functionality that
works without the hardware acceleration, as well as other options for
the desktop.
My customers (small and mid-sized businesses in Japan) are interested in
Linux specifically because they can cheaply clean and refurbish old
desktop hardware and save tons of money in the office. Telling them that
the next big thing on the Linux desktop is a cumbersome beast which
requires high end hardware the in a similar way Windows does tips the
balance away from cheap (read as "harmless" or "low overhead")
experimentation with Linux and back towards just sticking with Windows.
And let's face it, any smart company plays with a future platform before
they commit, so the cost of experimentation is a significant point to
consider.
But does Fedora 15 "require high end hardware"? No, it doesn't. You can
run other desktops, such as XFCE (which you mention as well), and still
run all of the same apps.
So while Gnome 3 may require better video hardware than was available on
an eight year old machine, that doesn't mean Fedora 15 itself requires
that better hardware.
True. I was arguing against the general principle of the first statement
above which made it seem that "since Microsoft forces the average home
and business user to buy high-end hardware that it makes it OK for a
Linux distribution to as well" if the user wants to install the default
desktop.
My position is that high-end desktops are definitely worth exploring,
but not as a default -- not just yet anyway. In Fedora's case this point
is a bit blunted by the fact that the platform itself is purposed toward
development and testing, and messiness is a big part of that (well, all
the fun anyway!). What better way to find out exactly what isn't working
on what hardware than to release to tens of thousands of daily users
through the Fedora? In other words, screwups in Fedora and unanticipated
outcomes are the norm -- which serves to permit concrete anticipation
and aversion of problems in production releases such as RHEL.
My worry is the sort of thinking that pushing high-end defaults
encourages, and I fear that it will seep too soon into other areas --
which is already happening to some degree. Part of Linux's uniqueness
and strength is its amazing ability to adapt to a variety of hardware
environments without requiring significant tweaking for the average user
(granted, this is a relatively recent development, but it is a user
expectation at this point).
Blah blah.
ResumeComa(Iwao);
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