[Wylug-discuss] What the Unity Desktop is really for?

[Paul Brook]

> > > > Mint seems to be taking over the role Ubuntu "abandoned" - and doing
> > > > pretty well out of it it seems.
> > > 
> > > Lot of it going on :)
> > 
> > Ah, the wonders of Open Source - don't like how it goes, make your
> > own :)

> And end up with 5 different ways of accomplishing the same task :P

You say that like it's a bad thing.  If those 5 ways really are redundant then 
three and a half of them will die naturally.  In practice you're likely to 
have both inexperienced users and expert users with different 
requirements/prorities, and the latter often have groups with conflicting 
requirements.

Note that none of this implies 5 completely redundant implementations. 
A corresponding benefit of open source is that good code can (and probably 
will) be shared.

Paul