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lacking hardware support for new graphic cards and some weird wireless cards printing is incredibly broken and sometimes cumbersome some games and application
by cisstrd 10y ago
lacking hardware support for new graphic cards and some weird wireless cards
printing is incredibly broken and sometimes cumbersome
some games and applications (photoshop, et cetera) people care for don't run or only with some work involved
it does not come pre-installed with computers people buy
not sure about power efficiency (power drain optimizations for notebooks and the like), but last I checked it's less efficient there
not necessarily a gui for everything
mere fact that there is so much choice (distributions, desktop environments, et cetera) that it is confusing
no central customer support
xorg is a mess, wayland afaik with some bad design decisions already
those were always the reasons weren't they?
your comment seems to imply it's not usable on the desktop, that's not the case, but for above reasons it has never gone mainstream (and will not in the near future) for the desktop.
but I am really an unsympathetic person to the whole linux-on-desktop mission. for me it's a server os or for specific use cases (ps4 based on freebsd, android, et cetera), that's where it shines, it's nice it works on the desktop, and I always use bsd/linux for my machines, but some think it apparently has to rival/beat windows/macos, don't agree with that. (in many ways it's particularly nice for developers/geeks because it's a server os working on the desktop, not another windows/macos - tell that to the systemd folks...)
- mentatghola 10y agoHow is linux a server os and not for the desktop?