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> But Linux is a nonstarter for most people, and macOS has all of the privacy issues of Windows I'm curious why is Linux nonstarter? It starts faster than Wind

by type0 10y ago

> But Linux is a nonstarter for most people, and macOS has all of the privacy issues of Windows I'm curious why is Linux nonstarter? It starts faster than Windows and easier to manage updates and install software. Also as far as I'm aware Apple isn't in the advertisement business so the privacy issues are not the same.

WayneBro 10y ago
It doesn't start faster than Windows 10 in my experience. Ubuntu server without desktop might, but Linux Mint 18 definitely does not on my hardware. Anyway, there are plenty of reasons that people don't use Linux and you can find a lot of them with this search term - https://www.google.com/search?q=why+don%27t+people+use+linux https://www.google.com/search?q=why+don%27t+people+use+linux If you need convincing that next to nobody runs Linux on their desktop, you can read about that here - https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+desktop+market+share https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+desktop+market+share
- ovidnis 10y ago
  Linking google searches is pretty meaningless and borders on insulting
  - WayneBro 10y ago
    Why? Obviously, given the very basic nature of the question, this person hasn't looked into it at all. Do you think I should have summarized all of the search results instead of just linking them? What in fact is so meaningless about responding in this way? Do you really think the question posed was so insightful and hitherto unanswered that we should all spend time considering it deeply here in this thread? Honestly I find it extremely insulting that, in every thread about Windows, there are twelve or so people here who come here simply to wonder out loud why nobody uses their favorite non-Windows operating system or to extol it's supremacy (and how could anybody else possibly ever think otherwise??). That's crap.
aphextron 10y ago
>I'm curious why is Linux nonstarter? Because as soon as an average person can't install Microsoft Word they get frustrated and give up. I wish it wasn't the case but every single non technical person I have tried to push Linux to has had zero interest.
flukus 10y ago
Hardware support. I've been lucky in the past but not so on my new machine, where I'm learning that "RX 480 is supported" really means "it'll kind of work, but to get full resolution and and HDMI sound you have to compile you're own bleeding edge kernel.

by type0 10y ago

WayneBro 10y ago

It doesn't start faster than Windows 10 in my experience. Ubuntu server without desktop might, but Linux Mint 18 definitely does not on my hardware. Anyway, there are plenty of reasons that people don't use Linux and you can find a lot of them with this search term - https://www.google.com/search?q=why+don%27t+people+use+linux https://www.google.com/search?q=why+don%27t+people+use+linux If you need convincing that next to nobody runs Linux on their desktop, you can read about that here - https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+desktop+market+share https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+desktop+market+share

ovidnis 10y ago
Linking google searches is pretty meaningless and borders on insulting
- WayneBro 10y ago
  Why? Obviously, given the very basic nature of the question, this person hasn't looked into it at all. Do you think I should have summarized all of the search results instead of just linking them? What in fact is so meaningless about responding in this way? Do you really think the question posed was so insightful and hitherto unanswered that we should all spend time considering it deeply here in this thread? Honestly I find it extremely insulting that, in every thread about Windows, there are twelve or so people here who come here simply to wonder out loud why nobody uses their favorite non-Windows operating system or to extol it's supremacy (and how could anybody else possibly ever think otherwise??). That's crap.

aphextron 10y ago

>I'm curious why is Linux nonstarter? Because as soon as an average person can't install Microsoft Word they get frustrated and give up. I wish it wasn't the case but every single non technical person I have tried to push Linux to has had zero interest.

flukus 10y ago

Hardware support. I've been lucky in the past but not so on my new machine, where I'm learning that "RX 480 is supported" really means "it'll kind of work, but to get full resolution and and HDMI sound you have to compile you're own bleeding edge kernel.