(09-11-2019, 05:45 PM)Wildefyr Wrote: People should have choice, but they shouldn't be locked into once they've made it.

I agree, projects could give a little more care to reduce the amount of hard dependencies, but how could this happen when are exactly those projects the ones taking all the attention.

(11-11-2019, 06:42 AM)budRich Wrote: I have followed the development of SerenityOS and think it is a very interesting project.

Seems a cool project, i will give a look at it

(11-11-2019, 06:42 AM)budRich Wrote: monolithic project where it will be difficult to add independent userland OS-components that are better then built in ones

Consistency is something that should exist at the same context, for example the unix tools, if you download coreutils it shouldn't be aware of all the tools that you have installed and have some consistency with them, but they should have consistency with itself.

(11-11-2019, 07:08 AM)budRich Wrote: tl;dr Do what GNOME, KDE, SystemD, Linux, GNU is doing: be the change you want to see.

I'm already doing something about that (at least to fix what i consider problems)

(11-11-2019, 07:08 AM)budRich Wrote: But there is really no point in yelling in to the void and demanding that GNOME, KDE, Firefox, GNU or whatever should become more minimal and less dependent on "bad" applications or syndromeD. "they" don't strive to be "minimal" and they are not "linux" (except for linux) or "unix" and they are probably not (you).

I agree, but i do believe that we should care about the design and implementation quality of the softwares that we use, because this is what will influence the directions and focus of new projects and even the older ones. This doesn't mean trying to "minify" GNU but using software that already does that.