Dedoimedo: the end of a long, beautiful run?

[sunrat]

I had installed Plasma on MX-19 running in a VM this morning, then logged out and selected it as my default DE. It just now took me 15 minutes to find out where to disable single-clicking to open stuff. It's not an option within Dolphin anymore, it's a system-wide setting. What I wonder is, how do people who prefer single-clicks accomplish common tasks such as selecting multiple files?

I'm a long-time single clicker and I can think of at least 3 way to select multiple files in Dolphin. PM me if you want to know more, it's drifting too far OT for this thread.

[handy]

The bottom line for me is that the review is very useful. Consider if Dedoimedo was a beta tester. The issues he raised would be evaluated by the devs and solutions pursued, Obviously it is a review on a release but the same process can be pursued. The general opinion of the devs that I gather from this thread is that they see this as another opportunity to make improvements not only in MX as released but in the release testing process as well.

I think that you have a really clear perspective on this richb.

[Paul..]

Critics are useful...In fact, his distance/remove from the day-to-day turmoil of our development process is what makes his POV particularly useful.

We see how hard it is to create the product...he just looks at the end result. In the end, we can't do that (on our own) without removing ourselves entirely from the process of development/creation.

[anticapitalista]

I'm sure there is criticism that the devs need to address (and have been already doing). Dedoimedo does love his drama though.

He concludes: I believe Continuum was better put together, by ever so slight margin.

But leaps to this in the following sentence: Let's hope this ain't the end of a long, beautiful run.

[winemaker]

i read his 17 reviews and he loved it and maybe rated 9.5???? out of 10? then 18 went down and he said mx went backwards as such - my words. rating less, and now this is even worse of a rating.

i never ran virtual and never cared to try. i do not run live usb either; but i run live installed on my machine and use it everyday. and in my experience both 18.3 when i came to mx and now 19 have been excellent. I am actually very impressed at the work the team has done!!! and i USE my laptops and rely on them for many things. the couple of questions i had was being new - the couple of issues were fixed and the 2 may have been an anomaly. as a USER and DAILY - my opinion is that his comments - not all - are rather sketchy and over the top. I am not a geek - wish i was but i got it to run on 4 systems. 2 thinkpads, a dell inspiron and and old macbook white plastic model.

[zarg2]

A long time ago as a fan of MX I requested Dedoimedo review it. his first review caused quite a kerfluffle here and I was mortified ; BUT the Devs here took his criticism and used it to make MX better. later reviews were complimentary and he loved the improvements. I think his latest review just points out some things he sees as regressions. he does like to be dramatic at times but overall I think he likes MX and wants it to succeed. I think the MX team is very responsive.

[Bamber]

MX already has an unofficial KDE respin by Adrian--maybe we can do a little more work on it and do an official version, at least for 64-bit?

hear, hear

[rokytnji.1]

After reading the link.

My take away?

The dude quit smoking weed when testing which we all know makes one irritable.

[winemaker]

that's funny.

[dreamer]

Let's hope this ain't the end of a long, beautiful run

for Dedoimedo.

Dedoimedo works for Canonical now, selling Snaps.

His recent talk seems a little awkward, because it's quite obvious we can't be friends when Snaps depend on:
systemd
Canonical Store
automatic updates/system backdoor

I think Dedoimedo is great, it's just that when money enters the picture there are always conflicts.

Igor Ljubuncic is a physicist by vocation and a Linux geek by profession. He works as a developer advocate at Canonical, and comes with many years of experience in the industry, including medical, high-performance computing, data center, cloud, and hosting fields. To date, Igor’s portfolio includes 15 patents, 16 books, several open-source projects, numerous articles published in leading journals and magazines, and presentations at prestigious international conferences like LinuxCon, CloudOpen, OpenStack days, IEEE events, and others. In his free time, Igor writes car reviews, fantasy novels and manages his award-winning blog.

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