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> Linux on the desktop is a somewhat pointless goal, and the community would benefit from embracing that fact. Please no. Linux works great on the desktop, eve
by executesorder66 10y ago
> Linux on the desktop is a somewhat pointless goal, and the community would benefit from embracing that fact.
Please no. Linux works great on the desktop, even for casual users. I have installed Linux on a few friends old laptops and they've all loved it. Distro's like Elementry, Manjaro, Mint and Ubuntu make it easy for casual users.
There are only 2 problems with Linux on the desktop remaining.
1) Games. A lot of gamers would love to switch but love their games that are currently Windows only at the moment. This situation is slowly improving.
2) The fact that almost everyone uses MS Office. MS works hard at making sure it doesn't follow standards so LibreOffice et al. won't be 100% compatible with it, so most businesses/people just revert back to MSOffice due to compatibility reasons. But if they all just switched to LibreOffice they'd get just as much shit done.