[ Thanks to An
Anonymous Reader for this link. ]
“The point of this piece is to make a point. It?s a point that I
don?t think I made clear the first go ?round. So, now I plan to
make it right. 🙂
“In the Android world, there is a bit of an epidemic caused by
greedy manufacturers who seem eager to prove that they have a
distinct product. Carriers go out of their way to make their mark
on devices too. This is called fragmentation. The same thing is
happening on the Linux desktop right now. Of course the big
difference here is that mega-corporations aren?t involved and there
aren?t very many chinese suicides (that we know of). The biggest
fragmenters are Canonical (Ubuntu), and Mint.
“Ubuntu has put together a clumsy desktop environment that fails
at managing windows in the same way as vanilla Gnome 3. The
difference here is that Unity is such a stretch from Gnome 3, users
are not able to even stay current with Gnome 3 if they have Unity
installed. In fact, the upcoming 12.0r release contains a mix of
Gnome 3.2 and 3.4 packages to suit the agenda of Unity. This is
fragmentation, plain and simple.”