In all seriousness it’s very exciting, I just don’t need to see the same information worded 20 different ways from random clickbait sites lol
In all seriousness it’s very exciting, I just don’t need to see the same information worded 20 different ways from random clickbait sites lol
Let me make this simple for everyone. There’s only a real metric for “the year of the desktop Linux” and that’s whenever Microsoft and Adobe release full featured versions of all their products for Linux. Not slimmed down web versions, no emulation/virtualization/-insert.hack- BS.
Get used it the idea, I know it hurts, but it’s true.
It’s a vicious circle. Linux has no representation on the desktop because it lacks support from commonly used desktop apps. And lack support from those apps because it has no representation.
Windows have to screw really hard to push common folks to switch AND Linux must come pre-installed on cheap desktops to appease young people that are entering the ecosystem now.
Exactly I agree with you but I also have to add that there’s another factor at play. Half of the success of Windows and macOS lies from the fact that they provide solid and stable APIs and development tools that “makes it easy” to develop to those platforms. Linux is very bad at that. If major pieces of an OS are constantly changing and it requires large re-works of the applications then developers are less likely to support it. To be fair the Linux situation might be even harder than that - there are no distribution “sponsored” IDE (like Visual Studio or Xcode) and userland API documentation, frameworks etc. Besides, Linux has the worst track ever of supporting old software, even worse than Apple and I believe this speaks volumes about the situation.
Until we don’t get a single DE with a single solid and well designed theme, UI library, developer friendly frameworks and whatnot Linux won’t be getting any meaningful traction among regular people and professional developers.
All you can do is switch to it and wait
The vast majority of people use a web browser, an office suite, an image viewer, a video player, and maybe some games. They’ll use whatever OS came free with the machine, or whatever they can get a friend / relative to install for them.
Most people have at least one other app that most people don’t use, that they use religiously, and has little UI foibles they don’t want to change. For some, it’s a native-app E-mail client they’re familiar with where they have 20-year-old messages backed up. For others, it’s a photo management app.
It often doesn’t matter if AltWinMintbuntuXYZ has those capabilities. If it doesn’t handle them in the exact same way, it’s an anxiety-producing shift.
This is a fairly rare amount of adventurism. Unless the computer won’t come up anymore and a friend/relative will fix it for free.
It usually happens when they buy from a respectable company, so the machine doesn’t come with a free (pirated) Windows preinstalled.