Reply With QuoteUsers are always going to demand more. That's true under both Linux and Windows. As a Windows gamer for many many years, I remember when nVidia drivers sucked for Final Fantasy XIV and I remember when AMD drivers sucked for Metro 2033.. Plenty of gamers demanding these companies meet their demands, and there's nothing wrong with it in the Windows world.. I don't see why Linux users making different demands to the same companies should be treated any different just because they're different demands. Sure, it'd be nice if users were always happy, but that's not going to happen..Originally Posted by Sonadow
Also, in the name of progress, the user's shouldn't just be quiet and quit complaining.. Some users (both Windows and Linux users alike) probably complain too much over well-known problems and make themselves very vocal, but they're just outliers.
C'mon, there's plenty of open source software that is pure genius in it's design. I'll take filelight as an example. That program is full of pure genius, words cannot even begin to describe it. I remember years ago SGI had gone all out in their file explorer/navigator with OpenGL up to whazoo to try to solve a problem of visualizing where your disk space is going.. Filelight does it much much better and without OpenGL.
There are quite a few open source apps on Linux that are 100% original creations and pure creativity and ingenuity if you know where to look.
The problem with the video editors in the past has always been that codecs and containers the video files were stored in were proprietary closed-source nightmares. So open source software has always been at a huge disadvantage and in order to even come close, has in the past, required binary blobs of video codecs which are really hard to work with and get any extra flexibility out of. When you're working with binary blobs, you lose a massive amount of flexibility to do whatever you like and that creates problems. Yet, you're forced to work with binary blobs because the source of all your video (camcorders, cameras, web streams, DVD rips, etc.) came from proprietary multimedia codecs.
I used to do a ton of Video editing, and I'll tell you one thing that open source did right that no other video editing company did.. They created a multimedia container (mkv) that supported multiple subtitle tracks, multiple audio tracks, and multiple video tracks. Which was a technology that was seen before for DVDs but had never before simplified down into a single multimedia file until mkv came around.
Some devs do, some devs don't. The devs that don't most likely don't know because they're only focused on meeting their own needs with the hope that other people might need it at well (sometimes true, sometimes not). Don't say the whole dev community doesn't know what users want because that's false.. A lot of devs know, but are just too busy to deliver it, while there are some devs that know and are also able to deliver it (Marek for example).
