"implementation diversity" is the cause of problems of free desktop. it is not a desirable thing.
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& the related thing where nobody gives a shit about providing a stable interface. (for any meaning of iface)
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e.g ifconfig is now ip addr. Yay you've made everything worse for whatever stupid reason I don't care about
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I loathe ifconfig, ip is a much more straightforward interface
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Nobody cares, provide a replacement for all the old scripts and people who learned to use ifconfig.
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It's this "we're making it better so deal with it" attitude that is one of the core problems with open source
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your argument wouldn't be more convincing if unix didn't consist exclusively of badly designed interfaces
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That's my point, unix _is_ badly designed interfaces, so is windows, so is OSX. All interfaces are "bad".
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Hell, somehow the web kinda works on probably the worst interfaces ever designed.
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The answer to an awful interface is very very rarely N entirely new non-compatible interfaces.
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The answer to a flawed but tolerable interface is community processes to improve without breaking things.
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there's no free software community, nor there can ever be, as there is no incentive to form one
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