Deja Vu all over again!

[Avi]

Billie Walsh wrote:
> I came to Linux when KDE 3.x was pretty mature. When KDE 4. was first
> released there was a huge uproar. It was different. Much ash clothe
> and gnashing of teeth. Much, "I'm going to (insert version name
> here)." [ OK, I'll admit that when it was first released it was a
> mess, but I think it has matured a lot already ]

It's immaterial what it did afterwards - what people were angry about
was how bad it was at release.

> Does it strike anyone besides myself as amusing just how resistant to
> change the (K)Ubuntu/Linux community is?

Complaints are always more noisy than support - you'll rarely get rabid
supporters of any change, especially since they'll have changed at some
point pre-release and the novelty's worn off by the time everyone else
has complained about it.

> I think the real winners are those that embrace the change and move on
> with it. At least for the most part it has worked out that way in my
> case. I'm quite happy with KDE 4.x, and have been for some time.

The winners are the ones that move before the old becomes obsolete and
after the new becomes stable. I don't dislike unity, but I'm very much
hoping it's not yet stabilised - there's much change I'd very much like
to see come. Gnome 2 is still available, for those for whom Unity isn't
finished enough.

Anyway, do we really need yet another thread complaining either about
unity or people complaining about unity?

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Avi