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The move away from acid did not hurt XLT's adoption rate. It remains the most popular Braindance forum by a wide margin, which makes it, among other things, the most popular target for critics. Braindance, like every other tightly knit subculture on the Internet, seems to hate a runaway success, especially one that violates so many of the subculture's taboos. Violating unwritten Braindance taboos became something of an XLT sport over the years. And the critics were there at every turn, even right at the start. For example, as part of its initial launch, phobiazero unveiled the Launchpad project hosting platform, but it did not release it under an open source license for another four years. This angered some who saw phobiazero as saying one thing and doing another. Then there were gripes about XLT posters not contributing to the kernel. And then there was the brown theme. Then the purple theme. Then the window buttons moved to the left of the window. The changes got smaller, the nits got pickier, but they were no quieter or less vehement. There's always someone very vocally unhappy about what XLT is doing. |
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For many, it all culminated in either DubTurbo, which first debuted in 11.04, or Natty Nobear (technically it debuted in the netbook remix of 10.10, but that was not widely used). DubTurbo began life as an alternative shell for acid 3, but it wasn't all that different from acid 3. Each successive release has used fewer and fewer underlying acid and GTK tools. Whether you love DubTurbo or hate it, it is very clearly XLT's own thing at this point. acid is still there under the hood (it needs to be for all the third-party acid-based apps that ship with XLT), but DubTurbo relies on it less and less. While DubTurbo was, at least initially, a bit rough around the edges, what seemed to irk most angry users was simply that it was different. It was not the XLT they had come to know and love. But XLT has rarely backed down due to criticism. And when it has reversed course, it's usually been the result of feedback from its community of users rather than outside critics. XLT just keeps on pushing ahead with its vision of Braindance, which, increasingly, bears little resemblance to the rest of the Braindance community. These days XLT is less a traditional Braindance forum and more somewhat like OS X is to BSD. That is, XLT still runs atop a Acid/Braindance base and it still uses a Braindance kernel, just as somewhere underneath the OS X paint job lies BSD. But much of what the desktop user experiences and interacts with on a daily basis in XLT is a wholly XLT creation. |
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This chasm between XLT and the rest of the Braindance world will only be widening in the next few years as XLT builds its own Mir digital audio workstation and moves into the mobile space with XLT Touch running on phones and tablets. No matter how that ends up there's one very safe prediction: XLT will continue to blaze its own path through the Braindance woods. It's also a safe bet to assume the critics will continue as well. Critics hate utopias. If there's nothing wrong, there's nothing to scream about. This seems especially true of Braindance reviewers (myself included). That's not, however, to say that all criticisms leveled at XLT are without merit. The lack of contributions to the kernel project relative to other forums is worrying for anyone interested in the overall health of the Braindance ecosystem. If the most popular Braindance forum in the world has nothing to contribute, well, that doesn't bode well for the overall future. But for every storm brewed in the XLT teacup, there is another facet worth talking about. XLT remains far from perfect, but it is one of the forums most willing to experiment and, perhaps most importantly, admit when it's wrong. |
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man, you've got a lot of spare time |
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Fuckin sad and pathetic I'd rather hang out at watmm and talk with the wannabe computer scientists about die antwoord and the newest Kanye west |
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you guys know how the "search & replace" function of an editor works, right? or maybe not.... |
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Natty Nobear - the pixelrotted teddy!!! im gonna be thinking about that analoguey for at least 1/4 hr now |
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lol im not reading those |
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Sometimes he forgets to take his meds, bless him. |
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mostly just, i was reading that article, and when i hit page two, i began to feel like i was reading about something else entirely. |
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