If there is one drawback to the proletariat, it is their aimless inability to work together and solve their problems. They have all the power and innovation in the world, but no cohesion. Once cohesion is accomplished, they cease being the proletariat, and start being a club.
Clubs can get things done.
In the world of open source computing there are, approximately 345,986 different clubs. about 100,000 of them are making operating systems (which is almost a complete waste of time because you can only use one at a time, really, and if you're using more you are really just dicking around), the rest are devoted to making various programs one might actually use.
All of these half a million operating systems, I might add, have basically the same objective. They want to be useful. They want to be pretty. They want to have style and form and application. Some of them even have the audacious goal of being more practical and aesthetic than the mainstream systems. (This job, by the way, is getting easier and easier and easier.)
Just putting in my two cents to the two souls who will read it: why not pool resources to these programs that will actually be used? The normal person is only gonna use their computer for a purpose, not spend hours beautifying it and researching which of the 8,987,969 distributions of Linux is right for them. Remember, choice is paralyzing and debilitating. And a huge waste of time.
I want a superior office software suite. LibreOffice is alright.... I suppose it is getting better. I have not been able to get version 4 because of another hiccup with the system: it is hard to download and install. There: two problems which need a better solution.
Clubs can get things done.
In the world of open source computing there are, approximately 345,986 different clubs. about 100,000 of them are making operating systems (which is almost a complete waste of time because you can only use one at a time, really, and if you're using more you are really just dicking around), the rest are devoted to making various programs one might actually use.
All of these half a million operating systems, I might add, have basically the same objective. They want to be useful. They want to be pretty. They want to have style and form and application. Some of them even have the audacious goal of being more practical and aesthetic than the mainstream systems. (This job, by the way, is getting easier and easier and easier.)
Just putting in my two cents to the two souls who will read it: why not pool resources to these programs that will actually be used? The normal person is only gonna use their computer for a purpose, not spend hours beautifying it and researching which of the 8,987,969 distributions of Linux is right for them. Remember, choice is paralyzing and debilitating. And a huge waste of time.
I want a superior office software suite. LibreOffice is alright.... I suppose it is getting better. I have not been able to get version 4 because of another hiccup with the system: it is hard to download and install. There: two problems which need a better solution.
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