Dedoimedo on MXPI

[Eadwine Rose]

MX Test (not Debian)

instead of MX test repo.



Put that in the tab title, is clear enough.

[Redacted]

However, my point is that other people have also confused Test Repo with Debian Testing. It's not just him or that recent DW review post.
If we can stop real users of MX from making that mistake and messing up their system, perhaps we should try.

I'm certainly not meaning to be denigrating to those that have made the mistake, but how much clearer can "MX Test Repo" be? It doesn't say Debian Testing.
As people read less and less, and spend less and less time to contemplate what they read, how far to we have to go to make everyone happy and "safe"?
Sure we should try to accommodate the world, but again, how far?

[jeffreyC]

Yeah, but reading popups is nerdy...

... and about as likely as them reading the manual.

[radonrose]

Yeah, but reading popups is nerdy...

The hackers should put an ad blocker in the app store to ban all those popups.

[duane]

Yes, dolphin-oracle. unite.

[Bamber]

I appreciate Dedoimedo's reviews, though. I kinda skim through to get to the parts that might be important to me.

Maybe that's the problem.
As a whole, the article makes sense. He raises some valid points which should be considered.

[dreamer]

Maybe Dedoimedo will be happy with KDE and KDE Discover.

He reviewed MXPI as a "Software Center" and maybe to avoid all this confusion it would have been better to say no "Software Center" (his definition) exists in Xfce version, which I guess is what he originally wrote in the MX-19.3 review.

I'm still surprised that Dedoimedo or his imagined target audience (which isn't MX Linux real audience) wants big icons and pointless reviews in a "Software Center".

[Bamber]

big icons and pointless reviews

Big icons are useful, and reviews are not pointless.

[SwampRabbit]

big icons and pointless reviews

Big icons are useful, and reviews are not pointless.

Icons are nice and all, but they take up space.

What is an icon going to be useful for exactly?
Icon based on the system theme or the official icon of the application?
The better the icon the better the application?

The problem with reviews are they get out of hand, can be biased, and can be very limited. And really in the end aren’t too helpful for FOSS application installers cause it ain’t like it costs anything to install, try it, then uninstall if you don’t like it. No harm no foul.

People should be wanting to learn and explore a bit with Linux and FOSS applications, so many great applications get overlooked or never tried because of this. What works for someone doesn’t work for everyone.

The best reviews will probably be found online somewhere else anyway.

Now something that may be useful is maybe the full description or a link to the application website.

[jeffreyC]

There is a large part of the population that prefers bling over substance aka form over function, but I doubt that many of them would venture away from Apple or Microsoft products.

So why should the dev team spend their limited time to try to cater to them?