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I've long felt that the greatest threat to Linux on the desktop (for the past ~15 years) has been OSX, not Windows. We all want a solid and reliable UNIX-based
by octorian 8y ago
I've long felt that the greatest threat to Linux on the desktop (for the past ~15 years) has been OSX, not Windows.
We all want a solid and reliable UNIX-based OS, but we also want an OS that won't be treated as a bastard child by hardware and software vendors. As much as we all love the world of free software, sometimes we actually do want/need to use commercial software as well.
Apple has given us what we fundamentally want, so we just put up with all the baggage that comes along with it. After all, what else are we going to do? Use Windows?
- bigpeopleareold 8y agoI have been going back and forth for many years between Linux and MacOS. In 2013, I just got annoyed at how finicky it was to get something compiled. I ended up with a Mac at my current job at the beginning, but a year into it, I had enough. Ubuntu has been a fine OS for me. It's not perfect, but it serves its purpose well enough.