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Project Treble

Posted Sep 24, 2018 19:39 UTC (Mon) by johannbg (guest, #65743)
In reply to: Project Treble by roc
Parent article: Project Treble

"It's not exactly that the rate of hardware improvement has dropped (though it has), but that the rate of improvement *of the user experience* has dropped."

This 1. pretty much sums it up.

It would be interesting article(s) for one of the editors to write, in which he/she would compare size/resource requirements and functional improvements between first edition of any mainstream linux distro to the current one.

Have distributions gone faster,less resource hungry, more functional for end users as time has passed and hardware improved or have they not ;)

1. http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

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Posted Sep 25, 2018 10:54 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

That blog post is quite selective. Hardware hasn't improved all that much, but meanwhile a lot of software has actually done pretty well. Modern Linux and Firefox on my 8 year old desktop PC are a great experience, better than they've ever been before. On the software development side, we've taken some wrong turns but we've also discovered ways to write fast, efficient, parallel code quickly and safely in ways no-one dreamed of ten years ago.

Many specific Web sites and applications have become unbelievably bloated but it's by no means all bad news.