8 Jun
2022
8 Jun
'22
2 a.m.
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:
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
Googling the title brings up the full article:
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Exploring-the-Trinity-Desk
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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...