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  • aaaantoine@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world...
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    10 months ago

    Software developers who never have, and never will have to, use the software for real.

    Yes. The customer doesn’t necessarily know what’s possible or know how to articulate what features they want. I spent one week in a position where I was using my own software for production and immediately made several simple enhancements once I had hands on experience with the expected business process.

    Every programmer should go through an exercise like this at least once in a while.





  • They’ve been separate desktop environments from the start. From top to bottom they share nearly nothing. The compositors, window managers, toolkits and shells are all different.

    They also are ideologically opposed. If they merged, which direction would they go? The more feature-rich KDE? Or the more streamlined Gnome? Such a merger would lead to infighting and stagnation.

    This is before even talking about the actual code underlying both environments.

    I think it’s better for everyone if they stay as two separate projects.