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> I guess users have been sufficiently beaten into submission that many of them will put up with software randomly quitting on them

A cultural acceptance of WIP software seems common, in free software communities, in my experience.




> A cultural acceptance of WIP software seems common, in free software communities, in my experience.

On the one hand, yeah it's harder to complain when something is only built in someone's spare time for free. On the other hand... is non-FOSS really any better? Has Windows yet managed to re-merge the old and new control panels?


And the middle one from Win 7?


The rumour is that the old control panel will be removed in the next version of Windows 10, so I'd hope so?


There's a difference between bugs and software developers who cares less about the user than software being up-to-date.

The first is a fact of life. The second is bad judgement.




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