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The title is not just click-bait, it's flat-out wrong. Instead of failing it's become even more successful over the years, because of the efforts of thousands o
by dschuetz 8y ago
The title is not just click-bait, it's flat-out wrong. Instead of failing it's become even more successful over the years, because of the efforts of thousands of maintainers and developers. The recent support/endorsement from Valve is just another success story. And Linus is not the only one who's identified several competing major software projects as the main culprit for Linux desktop lacking traction in the past years.
I'm surprised though, that systemd was adopted unanimously almost immediately on every major distribution over classic Init despite lots criticism and protests. But they can't agree on which GUI is best for a Linux desktop? Why is that I wonder?
- mateuszf 8y ago> Why is that I wonder? Maybe because"configuring" packages and services (main job of init system "users") is lot easier than writing gui applications. App developers use so many languages and frameworks (often with failing cross platforms abstractions) that it would be really hard to "force" them to use a common standard.
- pjmlp 8y agoYou mean the 1% desktop users running Steam?