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On Monday 18 December 2006 15:47, Grant wrote: |
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> I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in |
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> popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I |
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> personally still love Gentoo. |
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there are always several phases in the life of a distri. |
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Beginning, when it becomes 'cool' and a sudden surge in users, some time of |
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high popularity, a decline, and at the end, only the users who are |
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really 'the right ones' for that kind of distri are left. |
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So the 'always using the cool thing' users are gone and the 'we are using what |
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the cool guys were using' crowd is leaving now. So what? Are they important? |
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No. At some point ubuntu will suffer the same. And then the next cool distro |
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de jour. |
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Some decline in user interest is normal - and a healthy process. Because it |
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removes the 'I use it because it is cool' and 'I use it because everybody |
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else uses it' type of users. |
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