Gnome replaces Unity

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Liam Proven schreef op 14-10-2017 19:47:

> I have discussed this with the dev team, and they deny it, but I think
> a primary driver was to be _un_like Windows and secondarily the Mac.
> Remember that this was the time when Microsoft was threatening to sue
> the Linux world for copying the Windows desktop.

By the way I can't stress enough that not doing what you actually want 
to do because of external reasons is the best way to create something 
terrible.

Whatever the reason for that is I don't care, it's just true.

Also these day and age many companies are doing it for different 
reasons.....




Game company Blizzard for instance also stopped doing what it likes and 
now only does stuff that it thinks will help it sell more.

That's a different kind of external reason but it's still an external 
reason.

It becomes reactive instead of creative.

The result is that they create a mess and then try to fix it after 
launch, creating an even bigger mess.

Diablo 2 was the most popular game ever in that time. Diablo 3 is the 
least popular of all they ever put out.

Simply because they started "listening to players" and whatever players 
were complaining about.



Steve Jobs mentioned how they never even listened to users.

That wasn't possible because you couldn't ask users about something that 
didn't exist yet.

That may sound in complete contradiction to my dictum that Linux 
designers should ask people that actually use their systems (users).

But let's call that a divine dichotomy.