On Tuesday 07 June 2022 18:23:23 Michael wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2022 08:50:49 am Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote: > > Googling the title brings up the full article: > > https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Exploring-the-Trinity-Desk > >to p > > Thanks Michele! (Linux Magazine’s profit model baffles me.) > > I still can't ascertain which way the author is trying to bias people > towards Trinity. Most everything seems to be a very unsubtle backhanded > complement. It’s almost like the author took everything good about TDE and > tried to make it sound “bad?” Or was forced too, but took it to such an > extreeme so that readers could easily read between the lines on how ‘good’ > TDE is? Or maybe, as Nik says, the guys just a horrible writer? > > "Trinity dates from a time when functionality ... [was] more of a priority" > > "Trinity’s success lies in having fought the odds to provide a small group > of users what it wants and in extending the choices for everyone." > > And since I’m a math head… > > "Trinity claimed only a 1.3 percent share." (of Linux users) > > additional info from various ‘internets’ sources... > > - Windows more generally (1.5 billion active users, a number that hasn’t > moved, magically, in years), > - For desktop and laptop computers, Windows is the most used at 75%, > followed by Apple's macOS at 15%, and Linux-based operating systems, at 5% > (i.e. "desktop Linux" at 2.48%, plus Google's Chrome OS at 2.38%, in the US > up to 3.2%) > > Seems to indicate there are 650 thousand TDE users! > > 2,000,000,000 * 75.00% = 1,500,000,000 > 2,000,000,000 * 2.48% = 49,600,000 > 49,600,000 * 1.30% = 644,800 > > It seems like most TDE users never sign up on this list, how sad... There is pressure to conform to the mainstream opinions and tastes, and some people would rather fit in than to think too much. For me, with TDE, I can have whatever I want, limited only by hardware and my own skills or lack of them. Also, in some places that retro look, the newfangled hipsters, are supposed to be cool. But users can make their TDE screens look almost like anything they want. Rather than having maybe a dozen bland prefabricated configurations to choose from, TDE's old school interface offers infinite possibilities for how we can make our desktops look; all it requires is a little exploration and tinkering. Maybe that isn't to everybody's liking, though I don't get why. But then, for myself, I got used to being the minority opinion. Then again, we might consider it as a problem of branding: the kids have got to be taught that old school sometimes was really cool, and still is cool. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
