I’m glad, even overjoyed, that no desktop operating systems are running on my toothbrush.
As for the other benefits, a large chunk of them amount to “you can customize <Y>”. Which is great for the audience of Hacker News, but is just a headache for anyone who doesn’t know about <Y>.
The most important item for society at large is probably the ability to revitalize older hardware.
I agree revitalising old hardware has big environmental and social benefits, but being able to customise things is also important for a lot of users. For example all those people who find big changes to the Windows UI hard to cope with would probably love to have something as slow changing as XFCE.
just a headache for anyone who doesn’t know about <Y>
Its not a headache - they can just leave <Y> at the default
In many cases a lot of people will benefit from <Y> if they know about <Y>.
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I’m glad, even overjoyed, that no desktop operating systems are running on my toothbrush.
As for the other benefits, a large chunk of them amount to “you can customize <Y>”. Which is great for the audience of Hacker News, but is just a headache for anyone who doesn’t know about <Y>.
The most important item for society at large is probably the ability to revitalize older hardware.
I agree revitalising old hardware has big environmental and social benefits, but being able to customise things is also important for a lot of users. For example all those people who find big changes to the Windows UI hard to cope with would probably love to have something as slow changing as XFCE.
Its not a headache - they can just leave <Y> at the default
In many cases a lot of people will benefit from <Y> if they know about <Y>.