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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 11:47:23 -0400
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Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Thu, 09 May 2024 04:34:14 +0000, rbowman wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 19:39:09 -0400, DFS wrote:
>> 
>>> Here's what I posted to cola Apr 2019, when running Solus Linux with
>>> the Budgie desktop.
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgie_(desktop_environment)
>> 
>> Could you possibly find a more obscure/fucked up distro?
>
> For what it's worth, I appreciate that DFS is looking for minuscule 
> problems in Linux and pointing them out. You can't make anything better if 
> you're not going to be honest about its flaws. Unfortunately, even after 
> he points out the flaws and submits bug reports, the developers don't seem 
> to do anything to fix it.

That's a project problem, not a platform problem.

Microsoft itself seems to treat issue reports in a similar manner to bad
projects. So often in a Microsoft help forum, you'll get non-answers or no
answers, with user's getting plaintive about the lack of help.

Other companies act the same, all too often.

I wouldn't ding small open-source team for being slow in responding to bugs, as
they may have other more important things on their plate.

I will note one responsive project: Meson, on GitHub. Meson was using a file
called "meson_options.txt" to hold default values for project options. I wrote
up an issue about it (as had others earlier, apparently), and I noted that
the "txt" extension is too generic, and that I edited my /etc/DIR_COLORS file
so that I could grok a directory listing faster. And in version 1.1 IIRC,
voila, there was meson.options to supplement meson.build.

-- 
Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time.  So long
as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks
into, there is room for lateral movement.  Once this begins, its rate is
a matter of discretion.
		-- Corwin, Prince of Amber