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improving common uses cases in the process The whole reason people switch to Linux in the first place is for uncommon use cases.

AsyncAwait 10y ago
Really? So nobody's using Linux as a traditional desktop because they like it better than what Microsoft and Apple have to offer, do they? Well, I beg to differ.
coldtea 10y ago
>The whole reason people switch to Linux in the first place is for uncommon use cases. On the server, that's not true. People use Linux for the most commonplace use cases (e.g. the LAMP stack) as well. On the desktop, that's what needs to change, and has been promised to change since 1999 ("next year will be the year of the Linux desktop" which has been endlessly repeated was not about some outliers using it for "uncommon" use cases, but about mass adoption). But the whole critique is wrong too. When I said about "improving common uses cases" to the detriment of "uncommon uses cases" the former wasn't referring to features different people use. The people who use those "uncommon use cases" ALSO suffered from the crappy implementations and shortcomings of the common use cases like everybody else.
- digi_owl 10y ago
  On the server Linux was basically carried in by LAMP, as it allowed people to spin up websites at only the cost of the hardware (or rent on server space). Never mind that this as the dot-com bust, and thus there was a whole lot of cheap capacity to be had (kinda reminds one of the microcomputer getting a boost from excess capacity of CPUs thanks to the moon race). On the desktop Linux have a twofold problem. No prominent presence in stores (observe that Android, being a Linux derivative, have a massive presence, and the rise of ChromeOS) and a lack of commitment to API stability from the major lib devs (again contrast Android, where you have versioned APIs going back to the early days).

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improving common uses cases in the process The whole reason people switch to Linux in the first place is for uncommon use cases.

by nitrogen 10y ago

AsyncAwait 10y ago
Really? So nobody's using Linux as a traditional desktop because they like it better than what Microsoft and Apple have to offer, do they? Well, I beg to differ.
coldtea 10y ago
>The whole reason people switch to Linux in the first place is for uncommon use cases. On the server, that's not true. People use Linux for the most commonplace use cases (e.g. the LAMP stack) as well. On the desktop, that's what needs to change, and has been promised to change since 1999 ("next year will be the year of the Linux desktop" which has been endlessly repeated was not about some outliers using it for "uncommon" use cases, but about mass adoption). But the whole critique is wrong too. When I said about "improving common uses cases" to the detriment of "uncommon uses cases" the former wasn't referring to features different people use. The people who use those "uncommon use cases" ALSO suffered from the crappy implementations and shortcomings of the common use cases like everybody else.
- digi_owl 10y ago
  On the server Linux was basically carried in by LAMP, as it allowed people to spin up websites at only the cost of the hardware (or rent on server space). Never mind that this as the dot-com bust, and thus there was a whole lot of cheap capacity to be had (kinda reminds one of the microcomputer getting a boost from excess capacity of CPUs thanks to the moon race). On the desktop Linux have a twofold problem. No prominent presence in stores (observe that Android, being a Linux derivative, have a massive presence, and the rise of ChromeOS) and a lack of commitment to API stability from the major lib devs (again contrast Android, where you have versioned APIs going back to the early days).