Fragmentation And Linux
Windows users are familiar with fragmentation. When you have fragmentation, it means that it is time to do some drive maintenance. With Linux it takes on another meaning, since Linux drives are not as prone to fragmentation. To get fragmentation in Linux all you need to do is put two users in the same room.
The Linux community is as prone to fragmentation as Windows file systems. Perhaps it is time for the community to work on defragmentation. I understand why fragmentation happens and that to an extent it is even good.
I get it. I am a Linux user. I understand why it happens. We all have our views about the best distro, the preferred desktop and just about everything else in the Linux world. Disagreement is not a bad thing. It means that we have choice. Without choice we would not be arguing about the best distro, package manager or desktop.
However, when things become too fragmented everything begins to bog down and your experience begins to suffer. Such is the case in the Linux community today. Never have we had so much choice. Never have we had such growth. Never have we had so much dissension.
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