On 12/05/2011 04:48 PM, Tim wrote: > Buying new and expensive hardware every few years, for artificially > necessary reasons, is the Windows mindset. The underlying problem is much more fundamental than that. Often, the devs get big, muscular boxes to work on with lots and lots of disk space, RAM and video RAM, including the Latest and Greatest Video Cards they can find. This makes development much easier. They don't, however, bother to test their work on anything other than their own boxen, meaning that they quite often end up with great software that only works on a maxed-out computer with the latest video cards. And, of course, their regular response to anybody who complains about the unreasonable and expen$ive hardware requirements is to tell them to throw money at the problem because they rarely, if ever, have the slightest idea how much their development equipment cost or how hard it might be for their users to get together enough cash to upgrade. This problem would be self-correcting (because people would stay away from such resource hogs) if it weren't for companies who are willing to pay whatever it takes to upgrade because they think they have to have the latest pile of festering dingo poo to come down the pike and kids just out of school with more disposable income than common sense who do exactly the same thing. I don't know, of course, if that's part of what happened in the case of Gnome 3, but I wouldn't be the slightest bit astonished to learn that it was part of what made it turn out the way it did. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
